Next Talk 08/10/08

Next Talk 08/10/08

 

Myths, misconceptions and mischief, a freethinkers guide to Iran.

 

G.U. Skeptics and Freethinkers member Farhard Shams will be leading a discussion on growing up in Iran. Contrasts and comparrisons between cultures as well as a glance at beliefs, history and politics will be the central themes as we learn more about Iranian life from someone who actually grew up there!

Should be a really interesting night and I hope you can all make it and as always feel free to bring anyone who might be interested.

As always we meet at 6pm in room 1.14 of the G23 Multi-media Building and snacks will be provided again of course!

See you Wednesday,

Jayson D Cooke
GU Skeptics and Freethinkers.

The End of the World!!!

Our next topic for 10/09/08 will be:

The End of the World!!!

To celebrate the first attempt to circulate a beam through the C.E.R.N. Large Hadron Collider scheduled for 10 September, we will be asking exactly how nigh are the “end times”?

We will discuss at prophesies of doom throughout history and if the failure of these could potentially have created a “boy who cried wolf” type cultural mood, particularly in regards to climate change?

What are our greatest and most likely threats and is it possible to avoid them?

We will be looking at “The Last Days on Earth” a 20/20 science fiction special which aired on the ABC in August 2006 and has been aired on The History Channel.

Should be a really interesting night and I hope you can all make it and as always feel free to bring anyone who might be interested.

As always we meet at 6pm in room 1.14 of the G23 Multi-media Building and snacks will be provided again!

Also don’t forget anyone is welcome to contribute to our wordpress blog at http://gussf.wordpress.com/ and meet our international supporters and friends on the facebook site http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6117798570.

Plus last but not least we have our new meet-up page at http://skeptics.meetup.com/185/ which will hopefully open up our group to the broader community.

Hope to see you Wednesday,

Jayson D Cooke

GU Skeptics and Freethinkers.

http://gussf.wordpress.com/

The Barnum Effect! This Wednesday 4th June

Griffith University Society for Skeptics and Freethinkers presents….

The Barnum Effect

Why people want to believe

The secrets behind psychics, seances and scams.

How centuries old tricks are still being used to seperate people from their money.

Presented by Peter Booth and featuring pick-pocket entertainer Jay-Jay.

Wednesday 4^th June at 6pm.

Giffith University, Gold Coast Campus.

Building G17, Theatre 3.

All are welcome, free for GUSSF members, Gold Coin donation for guests

Richard Saunders is on his way here!

The Griffith University Society for Skeptics and Freethinkers invite you (yes, you) to check out our upcoming event.

This Wednesday the 21^st of May we are presenting our first guest speaker of the year, Richard Saunders. Richard is Vice President of Australian Skeptics http://www.skeptics.com.au/ and founder of Mystery Investigators http://www.mysteryinvestigators.com/richard/ and is taking the time to fly up from Sydney to give a presentation for us. The very same presentation in fact that he will give at James Randi’s Amazing Meeting 6 in Los Vegas this June, sharing the floor with Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson, PZ Myers, Matthew Chapman, and Sharon Begley, Phil Plait (the Bad Astronomer), Penn & Teller, Dr. Richard Wiseman, Dr. Michael Shermer, Adam Savage (from the Mythbusters), Steve Novella, and many more!

Richard has appeared on channel nine’s “A Current Affair” and channel seven’s “Sunrise” program multiple times in his role as a skeptic, debunking such topics as so called psychic detectives, ghosts, crop circles and more. Richard also runs the Tank vodcast in which our group has featured and I currently report for.

Admission is free for members of the GUSSF and a gold coin donation is all that is asked of anyone else who would like to come so feel free to invite/coerce/ drag as many people as you like both from on campus and of course the wider community, the more the merrier!

The event starts at 6.30pm in G17, lecture theatre 3 of the Gold Coast campus http://www.griffith.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/51549/gold-coast-buildings-january-2008.pdf

Jayson D Cooke

Griffith University Society for Skeptics and Freethinkers