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, send an email to webmaster@humanists.org requesting 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.

**A New book has been chosen starting 21 Mar - "**Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction" by Philip E. Tetlock (Author), Dan Gardner (Author), “The most important book on decision making since Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow.”—Jason Zweig, The Wall Street Journal

Last Reading of this book - The Dawn of a Mindful Universe: A Manifesto for Humanity's Future, August 22, 2023
by Marcelo Gleiser (Author)
An award-winning astronomer and physicist’s spellbinding and urgent call for a new Enlightenment and the recognition of the preciousness of life using reason and curiosity—the foundations of science—to study, nurture, and ultimately preserve humanity as we face the existential crisis of climate change.
Since Copernicus, humanity has increasingly seen itself as adrift, an insignificant speck within a large, cold universe. Brazilian physicist, astronomer, and winner of the 2019 Templeton Prize Marcelo Gleiser argues that it is because we have lost the spark of the Enlightenment that has guided human development over the past several centuries. While some scientific efforts have been made to overcome this increasingly bleak perspective—the ongoing search for life on other planets, the recent idea of the multiverse—they have not been enough to overcome the core problem: we’ve lost our moral mission and compassionate focus in our scientific endeavors.

Readings this week
7 May - Bring topics and join us for a lively discussion.
14 May - Finish the Book, "The Dawn of a Mindful Universe" - Chapt. 6 through 9, Pages 147 through 208, 61 pages over two weeks
21 May - Start a New Book, Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction

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

We are meeting online via Zoom. If you wish to join us, please sign up for the meeting, and the zoom link will be available on the right panel.

We are watching:
Crash Course Sociology
Health & Medicine: Crash Course Sociology #42
Our final unit of Crash Course Sociology is medical sociology. Today we’ll explain what it is and get an overview of the role of society in our notions of health and disease.

David & History for the Ages
Fall of the Ottomans Part III
The final Video on the rise and fall of the Ottoman Empire. It goes up to the independence of Greece.

Again, if you wish to join us, please sign up for the meeting, and the zoom link will be available on the right panel.

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, send an email to webmaster@humanists.org requesting 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.

**A New book has been chosen starting 21 Mar - "**Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction" by Philip E. Tetlock (Author), Dan Gardner (Author), “The most important book on decision making since Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow.”—Jason Zweig, The Wall Street Journal

Last Reading of this book - The Dawn of a Mindful Universe: A Manifesto for Humanity's Future, August 22, 2023
by Marcelo Gleiser (Author)
An award-winning astronomer and physicist’s spellbinding and urgent call for a new Enlightenment and the recognition of the preciousness of life using reason and curiosity—the foundations of science—to study, nurture, and ultimately preserve humanity as we face the existential crisis of climate change.
Since Copernicus, humanity has increasingly seen itself as adrift, an insignificant speck within a large, cold universe. Brazilian physicist, astronomer, and winner of the 2019 Templeton Prize Marcelo Gleiser argues that it is because we have lost the spark of the Enlightenment that has guided human development over the past several centuries. While some scientific efforts have been made to overcome this increasingly bleak perspective—the ongoing search for life on other planets, the recent idea of the multiverse—they have not been enough to overcome the core problem: we’ve lost our moral mission and compassionate focus in our scientific endeavors.

Readings this week
7 May - Bring topics and join us for a lively discussion.
14 May - Finish the Book, "The Dawn of a Mindful Universe" - Chapt. 6 through 9, Pages 147 through 208, 61 pages over two weeks
21 May - Start a New Book, Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction

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