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Meeting 03.03.10 – Literal Biblical Living

For our last meeting of the term, we watched “A.J. Jacobs’ year of living biblically.” Jacobs is a writer for Esquire magazine, and enjoys living life as a series of experiments. One such experiment entailed him living his life according … Continue reading

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Event 02.24.10 – Julia Sweeney’s Letting Go of God

In the face of an impending snow storm a few DFS members climbed the mountain of stairs to Curtis 455 and watched Julia Sweeney’s Letting Go of God on Wednesday, Feb. 24th. Thanks to our advisor, Prof. Ron Bishop, for … Continue reading

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Meeting 02.17.10 – What is love? (Baby, don’t hurt me…)

In the spirit of Valentine’s, we watched this TED talk by Helen Fisher on the biochemical foundations of romantic love, which spurred a rousing discussion on love vs. lust, conditioning oneself to love, marriage, arranged marriage, monogamy’s biological and societal … Continue reading

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Meeting 02.03.10 – Dan Dennett Talks About Religion, Evolution, And Education At TED

Thanks if you came out to the meeting tonight. We had a pretty good turnout. At the meeting we watching Dan Dennett’s TED talk, highlighting Rick Warren’s previous TED talk, and his book Breaking the Spell. Dennett believes that everyone … Continue reading

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Famous Magician and Skeptic James Randi Debunks Supernatural Claims

James Randi, world-famous magician, skeptic, and debunker of paranormal claims. He has offered a $1,000,000 challenge since 1964 (started at $1,000) for a person that can provide proof of a paranormal claim. So far, out of over 1,000 applicants, no … Continue reading

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Mr. Deity – The Other Video Shown at DFS Meeting

At our first DFS meeting we wanted to show a serious video and a humorous one. Jamie wrote about the serious video that we watched at our last meeting in the last post. I also wanted to post the other … Continue reading

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Meeting 01.06.2010 – The power of observation

If you missed our first meeting of the term, here’s the video we watched (just barely, thanks to all three Dragonfly networks sucking as usual). Kary Mullis, Nobel Prize-winning biochemist discusses the crucial role of experimentation in science. Read on … Continue reading

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Meeting 11.12.09 – Carl Sagan’s “Cosmos”

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