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Bicycle Touring and Zero Waste

Tim Oey

11 a.m., December 8, 2019

Earlier this year, Tim Oey bicycled 5000 miles from San Francisco to Boston while giving 254 talks about Oceans, Plastic, Climate Change, and Kids at schools, aquariums, and museums across the US and raising money to combat climate change. Come learn about the wonders of bicycle touring, how his household of 3 people and 3 dogs generates just a quart of trash a month, and 5 easy things we all can do to save our world for our kids as well as save money. It’s really all about balance.

Tim is a long time cycling and environmental advocate. In addition to a long career in high tech at Harvard, Fidelity, Apple, Sun, and Adobe, he was the VP of Rides for the Charles River Wheelers in Boston, President of the Friends of Stevens Creek Trail, vice chair for the Sunnyvale Bicycle and Pedestrian Commission, and a founding board member of the Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition (SVBC). He often speaks at government meetings on behalf of bicyclists and the environment and is a bicycling instructor who loves to teach people how to bike and how to bike better.

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Two Videos with Discussion

Jeff Justice and Carl Angotti will facilitate

11 a.m., December 1, 2019

The two videos this Sunday are “Is the World Getting Better”, and “Happiness: What Your Mother Didn’t Tell You”.

We will watch the above videos of talks by distinguished professors from Harvard University. Then we will spend some time discussing each one for about 10 to 15 minutes.

The videos are:

1) Steven Pinker’s Ted talk “Is the World Getting Better or Worse?”. It’s 18 minutes long. See:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCm9Ng0bbEQ&t=37s

Steven Arthur Pinker is a Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and popular science author. He is Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University, and is known for his advocacy of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind.

2) Dan Gilbert from Harvard University: “Happiness: What Your Mother Didn’t Tell You” (2018 WORLD.MINDS Annual Symposium). It’s 21 minutes long. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1Y2Z1BGwno

Professor Gilbert is interested in how human beings navigate the complexities of time and social life. The first of these interests motivates his research on affective forecasting (how, and how well, do people predict the emotional consequences of future events), inter-temporal choice (when and how people sacrifice for the future), and other topics in judgment and decision-making.

Both of these videos give us a lot to stimulate our thinking, get a discussion going.

Come join us to discuss these two great videos, and join in for lunch afterwards to discuss them further.

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After the Forum, please join us for a lunch at 12:30pm. The lunch is complimentary for first-time visitors and students.

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The Annual Creativity Sunday

Hosted by Sena Havasy

11 a.m., November 24, 2019

Do you paint? Write? Do a skit? Read a poem? Do a dramatic reading?
Sing? Play an instrument? Join us!

Audience members are invited to share any activity like the above with the rest of the audience.

Please contact Sena at senahav@gmail.com or 408-739-5638, if you would like to share something at this Forum.

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How We Know What We Know: Quantum Mechanics

Ron Garret

11 a.m., November 17, 2019

This is another in a series of talks on the history of science and how we came to our present understanding of how our world works. This installment focuses on quantum mechanics.

Ron Garret is a software engineer by trade. He is currently working on easy-to-use-cryptography software. He was a co-founder and CTO of Virgin Charter, and an early hire at Google. He was previously a rocket scientist. He also made a feature-length documentary about homelessness (www.graceofgodmovie.com). His blog can be found at blog.rongarret.info.

After the Forum, please join us for a lunch at 12:30pm. The lunch is complimentary for first-time visitors and students.

How We Know What We Know: Quantum Mechanics – Ron Garret from Humanist Community-SiliconValley on Vimeo.

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Two Videos with Discussion

Jeff Justice and Carl Angotti will facilitate

11 a.m., November 10, 2019

This week we will show two videos, each followed by an audience discussion. They deal with two topics of interest to Humanists.

The first video is “What Happened to the Atomic Test Sites?”:

During the cold war, you couldn’t get through a day without news articles on nuclear warfare. Why has that dropped from the news and what happened to the bombs? We will show an excellent documentary to start the discussion.

We will leave time for a more positive 10 minute documentary called “3 People Who Saved Your Life” about three people who exhibited very Humanistic values:

Join us to view videos about, and discuss, these two very interesting subjects.

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