Happy Darwin Day!
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razzleccentricWith a great big gift o' good news for Indiana!!!
JAMES (“the Amazing”) RANDI will be speaking on Monday, April 6, 7:30 pm, at the Atherton Union Reilly Room, Butler University, 4600 Sunset Ave., Indianapolis. He will be discussing examples of pseudo-scientific claims and will show how ordinary people and even many scientists have been fooled. This program is a part of the J. James Woods Lectures in Sciences and Mathematics. Free and open to the public. For more information go to: http://www.butler.edu/woodslectures
On the Sunday evening, April 5, James Randi will be stopping by Center for Inquiry Indiana for a meet and greet reception. This reception will be free and open to the public. Contact CFI Indiana for the exact time of the reception.
Bonus good news!
ANNIE LAURIE GAYLOR will be speaking about "Women Without Superstition: No Gods No Masters" at Indiana University/Bloomington on Saturday evening, March 7 and at the Rathskeller Restaurant, 401 E. Michigan St, Indianapolis, Indiana, on Sunday, March 8, 6:00 PM.
Annie Laurie Gaylor and her mother, Annie Nicole Gaylor, co-founded Freedom From Religon Foundation, Madison, WI, in 1976. Annie Laurie was a college student at the time. She is now Co-President of FFRF with her husband, Dan Barker. She is editor of Freethought Today which is published ten times a year by FFRF.
Annie Laurie is the editor of Women Without Superstition: "No Gods, No Masters" The Collected Writings of Women Freethinkers of the Nineteenth & Twentieth Centuries. She is the author of Woe to Women--The Bible Tells Me So: The Bible, Female Sexuality, & the Law and Betrayal of Trust: Clergy Abuse of Children.
She will be telling the untold story of the many women freethinkers who led the feminist and other social movements of their time. It is because of these women who challenged the religious influence over civil laws and practices that women have the rights they have today. This is a very fitting way to celebrate International Women's Day. http://www.internationalwomensday.com/.
Annie Laurie makes numerous appearances on national and local radio and television advancing the cause of Separation of State and Church and other issues involving nonbelievers. She is a graduate of the Journalism School, University of Wisconsin-Madison. For more information go to: http://www.ffrf.org
SUSAN SACKETT will be speaking about "Humanism in Star Trek" at Indiana University/Bloomington on Saturday evening, April 25 and at the Rathskeller Restaurant, 401 E. Michigan St, Indianapolis, Indiana, on Sunday, April 26, 6:00 PM.
Susan Sackett was personal executive assistant to Gene Roddenberry, creator of the television legend Star Trek, for over 17 years until his death in October 1991. She also served as his production assistant on the first Star Trek film and worked closely with him on the next five Star Trek movies. In addition, she served as Production Associate during the first five seasons of the television series, Star Trek: The Next Generation. Susan and her writing partner, Fred Bronson, sold several stories and a teleplay to that series, including the popular episodes “Ménage à Troi” and “The Game.”
She wrote three books about Star Trek: Letters to Star Trek, Star Trek Speaks! (with co-authors Fred and Stan Goldstein), and The Making of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, with co-author Gene Roddenberry.
Another book, Star Trek: The First 25 Years, co-authored with Gene Roddenberry, was not published but became the basis of the 1994 book, Star Trek: Where No One Has Gone Before: A History in Pictures, by J. M. Dillard. Susan’s Star Trek memoir, Inside Trek, was published in 2002.
It was Gene Roddenberry who introduced Susan to humanism. She has been president of the Humanist Society of Greater Phoenix since 2000. The chapter received “Chapter of the Year” from the American Humanist Association for 2001. For more information go to: http://www.insidetrek.com
JAMES (“the Amazing”) RANDI will be speaking on Monday, April 6, 7:30 pm, at the Atherton Union Reilly Room, Butler University, 4600 Sunset Ave., Indianapolis. He will be discussing examples of pseudo-scientific claims and will show how ordinary people and even many scientists have been fooled. This program is a part of the J. James Woods Lectures in Sciences and Mathematics. Free and open to the public. For more information go to: http://www.butler.edu/woodslectures
On the Sunday evening, April 5, James Randi will be stopping by Center for Inquiry Indiana for a meet and greet reception. This reception will be free and open to the public. Contact CFI Indiana for the exact time of the reception.
Bonus good news!
ANNIE LAURIE GAYLOR will be speaking about "Women Without Superstition: No Gods No Masters" at Indiana University/Bloomington on Saturday evening, March 7 and at the Rathskeller Restaurant, 401 E. Michigan St, Indianapolis, Indiana, on Sunday, March 8, 6:00 PM.
Annie Laurie Gaylor and her mother, Annie Nicole Gaylor, co-founded Freedom From Religon Foundation, Madison, WI, in 1976. Annie Laurie was a college student at the time. She is now Co-President of FFRF with her husband, Dan Barker. She is editor of Freethought Today which is published ten times a year by FFRF.
Annie Laurie is the editor of Women Without Superstition: "No Gods, No Masters" The Collected Writings of Women Freethinkers of the Nineteenth & Twentieth Centuries. She is the author of Woe to Women--The Bible Tells Me So: The Bible, Female Sexuality, & the Law and Betrayal of Trust: Clergy Abuse of Children.
She will be telling the untold story of the many women freethinkers who led the feminist and other social movements of their time. It is because of these women who challenged the religious influence over civil laws and practices that women have the rights they have today. This is a very fitting way to celebrate International Women's Day. http://www.internationalwomensday.com/.
Annie Laurie makes numerous appearances on national and local radio and television advancing the cause of Separation of State and Church and other issues involving nonbelievers. She is a graduate of the Journalism School, University of Wisconsin-Madison. For more information go to: http://www.ffrf.org
SUSAN SACKETT will be speaking about "Humanism in Star Trek" at Indiana University/Bloomington on Saturday evening, April 25 and at the Rathskeller Restaurant, 401 E. Michigan St, Indianapolis, Indiana, on Sunday, April 26, 6:00 PM.
Susan Sackett was personal executive assistant to Gene Roddenberry, creator of the television legend Star Trek, for over 17 years until his death in October 1991. She also served as his production assistant on the first Star Trek film and worked closely with him on the next five Star Trek movies. In addition, she served as Production Associate during the first five seasons of the television series, Star Trek: The Next Generation. Susan and her writing partner, Fred Bronson, sold several stories and a teleplay to that series, including the popular episodes “Ménage à Troi” and “The Game.”
She wrote three books about Star Trek: Letters to Star Trek, Star Trek Speaks! (with co-authors Fred and Stan Goldstein), and The Making of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, with co-author Gene Roddenberry.
Another book, Star Trek: The First 25 Years, co-authored with Gene Roddenberry, was not published but became the basis of the 1994 book, Star Trek: Where No One Has Gone Before: A History in Pictures, by J. M. Dillard. Susan’s Star Trek memoir, Inside Trek, was published in 2002.
It was Gene Roddenberry who introduced Susan to humanism. She has been president of the Humanist Society of Greater Phoenix since 2000. The chapter received “Chapter of the Year” from the American Humanist Association for 2001. For more information go to: http://www.insidetrek.com
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Date: 2009-02-12 10:06 pm (UTC)*Whimper*
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Date: 2009-02-13 02:02 am (UTC)James Randi! he's like a rock star for me!
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