Jonathan Karpf

July 17, 2016

Jonathan Karpf has been a Lecturer in biological anthropology at San José State University since 1987. His main interests are human genetics and evolution, alcoholism, the behavior, systematics, and ecology of primates, Mesoamerican prehistory, and social justice in Guatemala. In this Forum he will discuss cross-cultural constructions of gender, focusing on ways in which 3-gender and 4-gender societies differ from 2-gender societies such as our own.

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Ed and Min Yates

July 10, 2016

Falkland Island and South Georgia Island are home to the big King Penguins, as well as to many seals and albatross. HCSV members Min and Ed Yates will show pictures from their trip there on a National Geographic Lindblad tour, in addition to a video made by the tour’s videographers. The Yates have traveled extensively, including to Antarctica (twice!) and the Arctic. They consider these visits among their most interesting, and want to share their experiences with us.

Humanist Community Forum (2016-07-10): A Trip to Falkland Island and South Georgia Island (Ed and Min Yates) from Humanist Community-SiliconValley on Vimeo.

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Hank Pellissier

June 26, 2016

Brighter Brains Institute (BBI, brighterbrains.org/) is a SF Bay nonprofit that promotes humanist principles in western Uganda. BBI built BiZoHa – “the world’s first atheist orphanage”; it recently “converted” four schools in the Ruwenzori mountains to secular humanist principles, and it publishes African humanist writers, like Leo Igwe and Bwambale Robert Musubaho. It also established 12 clinics in the region to combat malaria, cholera, HIV/AIDS and other diseases.

Hank Pellissier is a writer for GreatSchools.org and program director of BBI. Previously he wrote for NYTimes.com and Salon.com, and authored Brighter Brains: 225 ways to elevate and injure IQ. He produced the world’s first Atheist Film Festival (2009, San Francisco) and a 2010 Atheist Calendar.

Humanist Community Forum (2016-06-26): “Humanist Missionaries” in Uganda (Hank Pellissier) from Humanist Community-SiliconValley on Vimeo.

Yau-man Chan

June 19, 2016

Yau-man Chan is a long time skeptic and atheist. After recently becoming formally involved with the Skeptic Movement he learned that many skeptics are believers/religious and many atheists are not skeptics. He was surprised to meet atheists who subscribe to all sorts of pseudoscience and conspiracy theories. In this talk he will try to engage fellow non-believers to explore why there is not more of an overlap. Why aren’t skeptics naturally also atheists and why do some atheists manage to hold on to many superstitious and non-reality based ideas when they have rejected religion.

Humanist Community Forum (2016-06-19): Skepticism and Atheism (Yau-man Chan) from Humanist Community-SiliconValley on Vimeo.