The SE Louisiana Nonbelievers Group (NOSHA)

Why Does E=MC² by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw

**The Science Book Club meets at Eastbank Regional Library in the Audiovisual Room on the second floor.**

FROM GOODREADS -- "What does E=mc² actually mean? Professors Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw go on a journey to the frontier of twenty-first-century science to unpack Einstein's famous equation. Explaining and simplifying notions of energy, mass, and light - while exploding commonly held misconceptions - they demonstrate how the structure of nature itself is contained within this equation. Along the way, we visit the site of one of the largest scientific experiments ever conducted: the now-famous Large Hadron Collider, a gigantic particle accelerator capable of recreating conditions that existed fractions of a second after the Big Bang.

A collaboration between one of the youngest professors in the United Kingdom and a distinguished popular physicist, Why Does E=mc² is one of the most exciting and accessible explanations of the theory of relativity."

**It is recommended, but not required that you read the book. All may participate in the discussion.**

Meet some secular friends for good conversation!

If you live on the Northshore and want to meet others in the NOSHA community, here's your chance to stop by and say hello.

Our Freethinkers Fika is a small, friendly social gathering for humanists, atheists, agnostics, and freethinkers to engage in free discussion with like-minded others in a coffee-shop atmosphere.

“Impressive . . . García’s story is about three generations of Cuban women and their separate responses to the revolution. Her special feat is to tell it in a style as warm and gentle as the ‘sustaining aromas of vanilla and almond,’ as rhythmic as the music of Beny Moré.” —Time

The haunting and bittersweet story of a family divided by geography and politics of the Cuban revolution. The lives of Celia del Pino and her husband, daughters, and grandchildren mirror the magical realism of Cuba itself, a landscape of beauty and poverty, idealism and corruption. Through vivid storytelling and rich symbolism, Dreaming in Cuban addresses the themes of cultural identity, family bonds, and the complexities of the immigrant experience, making it a poignant exploration of women's resilience in the face of adversity.

Challenged for sexually explicit material and inappropriate language.