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Humanist Community Forum (2017-04-16): Forward To The Past: Life In A Second-World Country (Jason Kazarian) from Humanist Community-SiliconValley on Vimeo.

Forward To The Past: Life In A Second-World Country

Jason Kazarian

April 16, 2017

What’s it like to live in Armenia, a former Soviet republic and a member of today’s Commonwealth of Independent States? Pretty much like living in America before the Great Depression. People have cars, electricity, factory jobs, and homes, but still make their own bread and cheese.

Jason Paul Kazarian worked in Armenia from 2008-2009 as a director of an IT training academy. Join him for an “agri-tour” of this tiny nation in the Caucus Mountains where the 21st century has, in some respects, yet to arrive.

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Humanist Community Forum (2017-04-09): The Religious Character of American Patriotism (Fred Edwords) from Humanist Community-SiliconValley on Vimeo.

The Religious Character of American Patriotism

Fred Edwords

April 9, 2017

As we face a strongly divided nation, populated by those with opposing concepts of our national identity, history, and ideals, it’s time to take an honest look at our traditions and answer some hard questions. Do we have a national religion after all? If so, exactly what is it? And where might it take us? This talk will explore often overlooked aspects of American culture, allow us to see ourselves as others see us, and thereby inform the choices we must make for our future.

Fred Edwords is director of planned giving for the American Humanist Association, an organization he served for fifteen years as executive director and twelve years as editor of its national magazine, The Humanist.

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Humanist Community Forum (2017-04-02): Models of Speciation: modes and tempos (Jonathan Karpf) from Humanist Community-SiliconValley on Vimeo.

Models of Speciation: modes and tempos

Jonathan Karpf

April 2, 2017

The presenter will address the evidence for competing models of where new species – including our own – come from, including evolution within a lineage vs. splitting of a line, geographic isolation vs. adaption to different aspects of the range, gradualism vs. punctuated equilibrium, with a specific focus on the emergence of Homo sapiens from a Homo ergaster ancestor.

Jonathan Karpf is a biological anthropologist trained at UC Berkeley and who has been teaching at San Jose State University in the Department of Anthropology since 1987.

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