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Name: Banned Books Club: Orwell’s Animal Farm
Start: 2015-02-22T17:00:00-05:00
End: 2015-02-22T20:00:00-05:00
Location: Nino’s Fireside Room

May 2014
The Science of Shakespeare – A Talk by Dan Falk

May 16, 2014 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Sidney Smith Hall 2102 100 St George St., Toronto, Ontario, Canada

On Friday, May 16, CFI Toronto will be hosting a talk by Dan Falk, author of The Science of Shakespeare: a New Look at the Playwright’s Universe. Falk’s Talk provides highlights from his book, now available on Goose Lane Editions. The Science of Shakespeare explores the connections between Shakespeare’s novel observations of human nature and the...
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$10 – $15
TORONTO: Science and Philosophy Book Club – Consciousness Explained, by Daniel Dennett

May 26, 2014 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Scallywag's 11 St Clair Ave, Toronto, ontario, Canada

Join guest host, Heider Alward for a discussion on Daniel Dennett’s Consciousness Explained. Consciousness Explained is a book from 1991 by the American philosopher Daniel Dennett which offers an account of how consciousness arises from interaction of physical and cognitive processes in the brain. This book can be read with genuine pleasure by a non-philosopher;...
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July 2014
TORONTO: Science and Philosophy Book Club – The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets and People, by Neil Shubin

July 28, 2014 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Scallywag's 11 St Clair Ave, Toronto, ontario, Canada

In his last book, Neil Shubin delved into the amazing connections between human anatomy—our hands, our jaws—and the structures in the fish that first took over land 375 million years ago. Now, with his trademark clarity and exuberance, he takes an even more expansive approach to the question of why we are the way we...
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Cafe Skeptique

July 19, 2014 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Free Times Cafe 320 College St, Toronto, ON, Canada

This is a group for drinks, food and informal discussion around all things skeptical: UFOs, ghosts, cryptozoology, alternative medicine, new age and new thought and pseudoscience. Cafe Skeptique meetings occur on the third Saturday of every month, from 5 – 7pm. All meetings take place at the Free Times Cafe, 320 College St (just west of Spadina), unless...
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February 2015
Banned Books Club: Orwell’s Animal Farm

February 22, 2015 @ 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Nino's Fireside Room 801 Broadway Avenue, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

OK folks, we are trying something a little different with the date and time of our meeting, though the location is the same. And this round’s book is George Orwell’s Animal Farm. Animal Farm is an allegorical and dystopian novel by George Orwell, published in England on 17 August 1945. According to Orwell, the book...
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