May 2022 Critical Links

Earth Is Old. The Sun Is Old. But Do You Know What May Be Even Older Than Both? Water!

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May 2022 Dates of Interest

Thoughtful Giving and World Humanist Day

6:30 pm: ONLINE Secular Community Network - Hosted by SCN Ottawa West

6:30 pm: ONLINE Secular Community Network - Hosted by SCN Ottawa West

6:30 pm: ONLINE Secular Community Network - Hosted by SCN Ottawa West

9:00 pm: "Water in our bottle is 4.5 billion years old" by Dr. Umut Yildiz

6:30 pm: ONLINE Secular Community Network - Hosted by SCN Ottawa West

6:30 pm: ONLINE Secular Community Network - Hosted by SCN Ottawa West

6:30 pm: ONLINE Secular Community Network - Hosted by SCN Ottawa West

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Critical Links for May 2022: News and Information from Centre for Inquiry Canada

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Is water older than the Earth and the Sun?

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CFIC is looking for volunteer branch managers

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May 2022 Dates of Interest

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One thing humanists share is a desire to leave the world somewhat better than it was when we arrived on it

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Events in May 2022

4 6:30 pm: ONLINE Secular Community Network - Hosted by SCN Ottawa West 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm May 4, 2022 Every Wednesday evening, the Secular Community Network of CFIC Ottawa will host lightly moderated informal discussions on topics of interest to freethinkers, humanists, and to others who are secular. Virtual More information Read more

11 6:30 pm: ONLINE Secular Community Network - Hosted by SCN Ottawa West 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm May 11, 2022 Every Wednesday evening, the Secular Community Network of CFIC Ottawa will host lightly moderated informal discussions on topics of interest to freethinkers, humanists, and to others who are secular. Virtual More information Read more 9:00 pm: "Water in our bottle is 4.5 billion years old" by Dr. Umut Yildiz 9:00 pm – 11:00 pm May 11, 2022 Earth is old. The sun is old. But do you know what may be even older than both? Water :) Dr. Umut Yildiz is a deep space telecommunications engineer and astrophysicist (h-index of 32, number of citations 2625 as of Jan 2022) at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. It’s not known for sure how the world became awash in it. But one theory argues that water originated on our planet from ice specks floating in a cosmic cloud before our sun was set ablaze, over 4.6 billion years ago. The thinking goes that some of the ancient ice survived the solar system’s chaotic creation and came to Earth. To demonstrate that, researchers analyzed water molecules in oceans for indicators of their ancient past. Dr. Umut Yildiz is one of those researchers. May 11th WEDS 9pm EST Free-admissions event. Registration required. More information Read more

18 6:30 pm: ONLINE Secular Community Network - Hosted by SCN Ottawa West 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm May 18, 2022 Every Wednesday evening, the Secular Community Network of CFIC Ottawa will host lightly moderated informal discussions on topics of interest to freethinkers, humanists, and to others who are secular. Virtual More information Read more

25 6:30 pm: ONLINE Secular Community Network - Hosted by SCN Ottawa West 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm May 25, 2022 Every Wednesday evening, the Secular Community Network of CFIC Ottawa will host lightly moderated informal discussions on topics of interest to freethinkers, humanists, and to others who are secular. Virtual More information Read more