This week is our next installment of Atheist YouTube! We'll be watching the video "Can we build AI without losing control over it? | Sam Harris" from the channel TED. Here's the description they gave for this video: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scared of superintelligent AI? You should be, says neuroscientist and philosopher Sam Harris -- and not […]

Is Buddhism a philosophy, a religion or a type of psychology? Is Buddhism atheist? Or is it compatible with atheism? We’ll explore the diversity of newer movements that identify with the Buddha’s teachings, including Buddhist Modernism, Vipassana, Thai Forest Tradition, Ambedkarism and Secular Buddhism. This week's speaker will be Topher. After the talk, we'll have […]

Honesty is one of the 24 character strengths identified by positive psychology research, categorized as part of the Virtue of Courage. But sometimes it is more virtuous and courageous to […]

Let's plan what we'll be doing for the next quarter! Is there a topic you'd like to give a talk about? Come have a voice in what we do next […]

This week is our popular Speed Talks event! Three to five speakers get 5-8 minutes each to expound their ideas, followed by our group discussion period where the community react […]

Drawn from Michael Bronski's book, "A Queer History of the United States". As it turns out, we've been here through the entire history of our country. Let's review some of […]

100 day challenges are a useful way to explore activities and/or to develop new habits. This particular challenge combines noticing various things that we appreciate in our surroundings, and taking […]

Inspired by a video of a lone dancer at a music festival. He's a weirdo, a lunatic, someone with a broken view of the world. But then a leader appears, […]

In school we learn about Martin Luther King, Jr., and that might be it for Black history. You probably know of Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, and Rosa Parks. There are […]