Humanist Community in Silicon Valley

We are holding our meeting online via Zoom and in person at either the Sunnyvale, Mountain View, or Palo Alto Public Library. If you wish to join us, please sign up at https://www.meetup.com/humanistcommunity/events/307349792/edit/?fromSeries=true, and the link to the meeting will be available to you. If you wish to join us in person, email webmaster@humanists.org to request the meeting place.

We are meeting online via Zoom and in person at the Sunnyvale, Mountain View, or Palo Alto Public Library as a Hybrid Zoom meeting. If you wish to join us, please sign up for the meeting, and the Zoom link will be available on the right panel. If you wish to attend in person, you can find out about the meeting place by sending an email to webmaster@humanists.org requesting the library meeting place.

We are reading now:
"Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering", by Malcolm Gladwell, 2024, 368 pages

Why is Miami…Miami? What does the heartbreaking fate of the cheetah tell us about the way we raise our children? Why do Ivy League schools care so much about sports? What is the Magic Third, and what does it mean for racial harmony? In this provocative new work, Malcolm Gladwell returns for the first time in twenty-five years to the subject of social epidemics and tipping points, this time with the aim of explaining the dark side of contagious phenomena.

Through a series of riveting stories, Gladwell traces the rise of a new and troubling form of social engineering. He takes us to the streets of Los Angeles to meet the world’s most successful bank robbers, rediscovers a forgotten television show from the 1970s that changed the world, visits the site of a historic experiment on a tiny cul-de-sac in northern California, and offers an alternate history of two of the biggest epidemics of our day: COVID and the opioid crisis. Revenge of the Tipping Point is Gladwell’s most personal book yet. With his characteristic mix of storytelling and social science, he offers a guide to making sense of the contagions of the modern world. It’s time we took tipping points seriously.

4 Feb - Freethought Discussion. Bring a topic to share and discuss
11 Feb - We are reading Chapter 3 & 4, , Pages 73 to 137, 64 Pages over two weeks

For Further information see:
Website: http://www.humanists.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/humanistcommsv/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/HumanistCommSV

We are holding our meeting online via Zoom and in person at either the Sunnyvale, Mountain View, or Palo Alto Public Library. If you wish to join us, please sign up at https://www.meetup.com/humanistcommunity/events/307349792/edit/?fromSeries=true, and the link to the meeting will be available to you. If you wish to join us in person, email webmaster@humanists.org to request the meeting place.

We are meeting online via Zoom and in person at the Sunnyvale, Mountain View, or Palo Alto Public Library as a Hybrid Zoom meeting. If you wish to join us, please sign up for the meeting, and the Zoom link will be available on the right panel. If you wish to attend in person, you can find out about the meeting place by sending an email to webmaster@humanists.org requesting the library meeting place.

We are reading now:
"Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering", by Malcolm Gladwell, 2024, 368 pages

Why is Miami…Miami? What does the heartbreaking fate of the cheetah tell us about the way we raise our children? Why do Ivy League schools care so much about sports? What is the Magic Third, and what does it mean for racial harmony? In this provocative new work, Malcolm Gladwell returns for the first time in twenty-five years to the subject of social epidemics and tipping points, this time with the aim of explaining the dark side of contagious phenomena.

Through a series of riveting stories, Gladwell traces the rise of a new and troubling form of social engineering. He takes us to the streets of Los Angeles to meet the world’s most successful bank robbers, rediscovers a forgotten television show from the 1970s that changed the world, visits the site of a historic experiment on a tiny cul-de-sac in northern California, and offers an alternate history of two of the biggest epidemics of our day: COVID and the opioid crisis. Revenge of the Tipping Point is Gladwell’s most personal book yet. With his characteristic mix of storytelling and social science, he offers a guide to making sense of the contagions of the modern world. It’s time we took tipping points seriously.

4 Feb - Freethought Discussion. Bring a topic to share and discuss
11 Feb - We are reading Chapter 3 & 4, , Pages 73 to 137, 64 Pages over two weeks

For Further information see:
Website: http://www.humanists.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/humanistcommsv/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/HumanistCommSV