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Santa Barbara Humanist Calendar

  • Sun Jun 22

    Summer Solstice Picnic

    Partial pot luck at Stow Grove at Noon.  Cost is $5 for members and $10 for non-members

  • Sat Jul 26

    Junkie To Judge

    Retired judge Mary Beth O’Connor about her story from being a teenage junkie to being a judge & how she recovered without the use of a ‘higher power’

  • Sat Aug 16

    Visit to Mt Wilson Observatory

    Contact Gary Doreen to see if there are any slots available  gary Noreen <[email protected]>

  • Sat Sep 20

    Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity

    • Christopher DiCarlo, Senior Researcher and Ethicist, at Convergence Analysis, is one of Canada’s Humanists of the Year, Advisor to Center For Inquiry-Canada, author of How to Become a Really Good Pain in the Ass: A Critical Thinker’s Guide to Asking the Right Questions, and Building a God: The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence and the Race to Control It, speaking on Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity. This event will be cohosted on Zoom with Margaret Downey and The Freethought Society.
  • Sun Oct 12

    The Misinformation Trap and Changing Minds: My Journey from Creationist to Biologist.

    Melanie Trecek-King, Associate Professor of Biology at Massasoit Community College; Education Director for the Mental Immunity Project and the Cognitive Immunology Research Collaborative (CIRCE), and is a Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. Her talk: The Misinformation Trap and Changing Minds: My Journey from Creationist to Biologist.

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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.
Charles Darwin