Thursday Monthly Meeting

SPEAKER: Kenneth Bronstein, President NYC Atheists SUBJECT: You Are NYC Atheists' Future! This is a crucial meeting. We will discuss how our members will bring their skills and experience to...

Host Ken Bronstein will give his monthly update. Then authors David Orenstein, Ph.D. and Linda Blaikie, LSCW, will discuss their upcoming book: Godless Grace: How Non-Believers are Making the World Safer, Richer and Kinder “Atheists and other nonbelievers are per se immoral. … Since god is the source of all morality, it’s impossible for a nonbeliever to...

Speaker: Jerry Coyne, Ph.D. Professor, College of Ecology and Evolution, Biological Sciences Topic: The Best Answers I Have Heard About Atheism We will listen to an interview by Brian Lehrer (WNYC) interviewing Coyne about Atheism. We will then Skype with Coyne for followup questions. Note that the meeting is a week earlier this month due...

Speaker: Mark Oppenheimer, PhD Religion reporter at the New York Times Topic: Atheism and the Media Mark Oppenheimer writes the biweekly Beliefs column for The New York Times. He also writes for The New York Times Magazine, The Nation, The Forward, Tablet, and Mother Jones. He is the author of three books, including Knocking on...

Celebrate Charles Darwin's 209th Birthday!! Speaker: J. Bret Bennington Ph.D Professor of Geology, Environment, and Sustainability, Hofstra University Topic: Life of Charles Darwin, Evolution and the Galapagos J. Bret Bennington, Ph.D., is a paleontologist with a strong interest in evolution and geology and is actively involved in the IDEAS Institute (Institute for the Development of...

  Topic: How Did Life Emerge on Earth? We will watch and discuss a fabulous PBS Nova video "Life's Rocky Start". Four and a half billion years ago, the young Earth was a hellish place - a seething chaos of meteorite impacts, volcanoes belching noxious gases, and lightning flashing through a thin, torrid atmosphere.  Then,...

We will watch and then discuss the History Channel's How the Earth was Made. Host: Ken Bronstein Built on the remains of mountains that 450 million years ago were as tall as the Himalayas, New York is one of the most man-made spaces on the planet. Learn how everything about it - from the height of...

Topic: Deconstructing "G-d Bless America" Host: Ken Bronstein The speaker will be Tim Law, investigative reporter in the fields of law and the environment as well as a participant in the social media culture war.

Host: Ken Bronstein Speaker: Abby Hafer from Curry College, Department of Human Anatomy and Physiology Abby Hafer is a speaker, writer and humorist who particularly loves taking on Intelligent Design, Creationism, the politics surrounding them, and science denialism in general. A few years ago, she realized that Intelligent Design is a political pressure group, not...

Host: Ken Bronstein Program: The Search for the Higgs Boson Join us to watch the outstanding PBS video Particle Fever about the search for the Higgs Boson. As the Large Hadron Collider (CERN) is about to be launched for the first time, physicists are on the cusp of the greatest scientific discovery of all time...

Host: Ken Bronstein Speaker: Glennys Farrar, Ph.D., Professor of Physics, NYU Topic: Dark Matter and Dark Energy A $10 charge for this event is used to help cover the cost of the venue.

Host: Ken Bronstein Speaker: Kelly McBride Folkers Topic: About the Zika virus and the ethical issues it creates A $10 charge for this event is used to help cover the...

Host: Ken Bronstein Speaker: Jon McGinn Topic: CRISPR: All about this world-changing genome editing technique. A $10 charge for this event is used to help cover the cost of the...

Host: Ken Bronstein Speaker: Julien Musolino Ph.D., Associate Professor of Cognitive Psychology and Psycholinguistics at Rutgers University Topic: The Soul Fallacy: What Science Shows We Gain From Letting Go of...

Host: Ken Bronstein SPEAKER: KAREN GARST, Ph.D She recently retired as executive director of the Oregon State Bar. She has a blog at http://www.faithlessfeminist.com and is on Facebook and YouTube...

Host: Ken Bronstein SPEAKER: Rafael O'Halloran Assistant Professor of Radiology, Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai TOPIC: Brain Imaging Technology, Neurological and Psychological Diseases A $10 charge for this...

Host: Ken Bronstein SPEAKER: Mercer Brugler, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Organismal Biology - NYC College of Technology TOPIC: Explore the beautiful and unusual lifeforms that thrive on the sea floor! Cruise with Dr. Brugler as he explores the unusual and beautiful life-forms that thrive on the ocean floor. Dive to ocean depths where no light penetrates and chemicals...