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Friday 22 October 2010

Darwin, God and The Meaning of Life



Today our speaker for March, Dr Steve Stewart-Williams, launched his book Darwin, God and The Meaning of Life: How Evolutionary Psychology Undermines Everything You Thought You Knew. I went along to meet him and get some free snacks! To my surprise he was about 8 feet tall, which I only noticed when he stood up out of his chair and appeared to keep on standing up past the expected amount. Intimidating as his height was, he was very welcoming. I had a good chat with him later on after he'd signed a few books. I also chatted to some of his colleagues from the psychology department, which made for some interesting discussion. Unfortunately I was too poor to afford one of his books, but I will definitely be getting a copy in the future, at which point I will track him down for his signature! It looks to be a very interesting read. I advise all of you to go out and buy it! I am very much looking forward to his talk and think it will lead to very interesting Q&A session.

On another note, it's less than 2 weeks till we launch! As you can probably tell from the countdown above come to think of it... November 4th, Monkey Bar, Dean Burnett, Nervous Laughter. Tell your friends! Look forward to seeing you all there :-)

Tuesday 5 October 2010

Oh Shit! There appears to be a barrel rolling!

Ok so I've been hard at work getting a venue sorted (with a little help from Rob) and booking some speakers! :-)

We will be hosting our event at the wonderful Monkey Bar, a short walk down the road from the train station. For people travelling by car you can park in Parc Tawe by Plantasia and walk through it's all very easy to get to. We will be holding our events on the first Thursday of each month, starting from November 4th. Our first talk is by the brilliant Dean Burnett co-founder of Cardiff Skeptics in the Pub, entitled - Nervous Laughter: Promoting Neuroscience (and General Science) through Comedy. This should be brilliant, I can't wait! And our second event will be the amazing Iszi Lawrence, she will be talking about – The Experiences of An Awkward Atheist

I've seen her before and she is hilarious, wear incontinence pants because you will be pissing yourself with laughter!

Got some more great speakers lined up but more of them later ;-)

A few other things for you guys to look at

http://thewelshboyo.wordpress.com/ - rhys morgan's blog, info on #bleachgate, if you don't know what #bleachgate is read it ;-)

http://jackofkent.blogspot.com/2010/09/guest-post-john-dixon-on-scientology_29.html
john dixon's guest post on jack of kent about #stupidscientology :-)

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/09/around_the_solar_system.html some amazing astronomy pictures :-D


 

Ray