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Winter Solstice & Secular Holiday Brunch
Sunday, December 22, 2019 12pm come celebrate the holiday season, the first morning of the winter solstice, the end of Saturnalia, and the eve of both HumanLight and Festivus with free-thinkers, atheists, agnostics, secular humanists, those questioning their faith, and others who are no longer part of a religious community. This won’t be a traditional…
Celebrating the end of Blasphemy laws in Canada
December 10 at the Fox and Feather we celebrated the end of blasphemy laws in Canada. On December 13, 2018, Canada’s blasphemy law was repealed, with the passage of Bill C-51. December 10 is also the 71st anniversary of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Kevin Brown gave us a brief talk about…
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Joan and the Single String
A good friend of mine is a cellist. We talk from time to time about the nature of her instrument, and as I don’t know much about music and she doesn’t know much physics we have a hard time understanding each other in these conversations. In order to understand the cello, I started by the…
Evolution & Science Pub Quiz – 160th anniversary of Darwin’s Origin of Species
On 24 November, 1859, Charles Darwin started the evolution revolution when he published his book “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Origin_of_Species We celebrated this groundbreaking accomplishment with a pub quiz Sunday November 24, 2019. Teams of 2-3 competed for bragging rights. [Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”16″ gal_title=”Darwin Origin of Species 160…
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