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Radio Freethinker Episode 196 – Goodbye Aaron Edition

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This week:
Lead violence,
- Calgary’s Flaming Flu Controversy,

Eulogy for Aaron Swartz
, and
- Sam Harris ain’t a good skeptic, its guns this time

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Lead violence

56834116-lead-poisoningMore and more research is pointing to a possible cause for the REDUCTION of violence in the west…lead, or the reduction of it in our urban environments. We discuss the research and some of the implications towards social studies and race relations.

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Calgary’s Flaming Flu Controversy

ghrn132lEthan discusses the ongoing controversy in Calgary revolving around how the Calgary Flames players and families ‘jumped’ the cue when it came to getting the H1N1 flu vaccine in 2009.

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Eulogy for Aaron Swartz

184472_542876089056707_1319108737_nDon give an impassioned and emotional eulogy to one of the promising progressive lights – Aaron Swartz, and how state bullying contributed to his suicide.

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Aaron inspired

Aaron inspired

Sam Harris ain’t a good skeptic, its guns this time.

cbe0109cd-gun-sales-500A recent controversy yet again arisen over what WAS one of the leading figures of the atheist skeptical community. Sam Harris yet again shows that at least on some subjects, he is far more the dogmatist than the enlightened skeptic.

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Skeptical Highlights:

The Harper Monologue: The Politics of Hate and Fear

RageResistRebel details the predatory politics of Stephen Harper, the “Prime Manipulator of Canada”.

When:  Thursday, Jan 17 at 8pm

Where: Rhizome Caf on East Broadway, Vancouver

Cost: Tix $10-20

Philosophers’ Jam
How We Create Life’s Meaning

Sigmund Freud once said that if you question life’s meaning, you’re sick. But existential philosophers think that if you never question life’s meaning, you’re not only naïve – you’re inauthentic. In this session,  Kurt Preinsperg  will examine the ‘Meaning Quadrangle’ and consider a step-by- step method for how an individual can take the creation of life’s meaning firmly into their own hands.

When: Thursday, Jan 17 at 7pm

Where: Faculty & Staff Dining Lounge, Lanagra Collage, Vancouver

Cost: Free

Albert Camus, the Absurd Man’s Path

Robin Durand presents a lecture on Camus’s thinking, its topicality, who is the absurd man, and what his path of thoughts is.

Camus was French philosopher who promoted the philosophy of the absurd. Absurdism refers to the conflict between the human tendency to seek inherent value and meaning in life and the human inability to find any. In this context, absurd does not mean “logically impossible”, but rather “humanly impossible”.

When: Thursday, Jan 17 at 7pm

Where: Alliance Fran on Cambie, Vancouver

Cost: Free

CFI Cafe Inquiry – Has Violence Declined?

January 19th at 1pm
Room 2200 of SFU Harbour Centre
This cafe will discuss of Steven Pinker’s latest book “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined” The central thesis of the book is that human beings have become less violent over the course of our history. From war to violent assault, Pinker believes that there is convincing evidence that we are living in the most peaceful time in human history.

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