Sean O’Brien: a Musical
A musical presentation by Sean O'Brien, our noted Robert Ingersoll impersonater. Details TBA.
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Reason Center, 1300 Ethan Way, Ste 675, Sac., map (https://goo.gl/maps/S5MR1e8ZodBzb4TG8).
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Irish Music Concert with Sean O’Brien
Reason Center, 1300 Ethan Way, Ste 675, Sac., map (https://goo.gl/maps/S5MR1e8ZodBzb4TG8) 1300 Ethan Way, Ste 675, Sacramento, CA, United StatesYou remember Sean O’Brien, right? The Robert Ingersoll guy, the Poe guy, right? Wrong. He has talents beyond that. Now he will entertain us with masterful skill on the folk guitar, Irish pennywhistle and the bodhran, an ancient Irish drum. It will be a musical concert like none other. It will get your Irish up. […]
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World Friendship Day
World Friendship Day (http://www.friendshipday.org/) (or International Friendship Day) is the first Sunday of August, which of course floats, like the friendship in our lives, and can be any day from Aug 1 through Aug 7. We humans are social creatures. We recognize the value of friendship, the invisible thread connecting our hearts. In 1935 the US Congress proclaimed […]
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Ingersoll Day
Ingersoll Day marks the birthday of Robert Green Ingersoll (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_G._Ingersoll), honoring the life and work of one of the most noted freethinkers in US history. Ingersoll was also the most successful orator in nineteenth century America, heard by more Americans than any human before the advent of motion pictures and radio. A leading political figure, he campaigned […]
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Liam McDaid: The Hubble Constant Controversy
FeaturedReason Center, 1300 Ethan Way, Suite 675, see map (https://goo.gl/maps/RwiUgEJ5ESHRhrPu8)The Hubble Constant Controversy The Hubble constant is the most inconstant constant you are likely to meet. It's also one of the most important numbers in cosmology. It tells us how fast the universe is expanding, which can tell us much else -- like, the age of the universe, its history, and possible new particles […]
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Board of Directors Meeting
Reason Center, 1300 Ethan Way, Ste 675, Sac., map (https://goo.gl/maps/S5MR1e8ZodBzb4TG8) 1300 Ethan Way, Ste 675, Sacramento, CA, United StatesIt’s an AOF planning meeting, mainly for AOF directors & officers, but open to all of you. These happen as required and are a lot more fun than they sound. Please join us, meet the Board, keep an eye on the shenanigans. We love visitors. We often have snacks. And maybe you’ll have some good […]
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Ask An Atheist Day
National Ask an Atheist Day (https://www.wheniscalendars.com/national-ask-an-atheist-day/) is a movible secular holiday that occurs twice each year -- first on the 3rd Thursday of April (which can be anywhere from April 15 to April 21), then on the 3rd Thursday of September (from Sept 15 to Sep 21). As if atheists don't have enough to do […]
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World Cleanup Day
In the United States, World Cleanup Day (https://www.worldcleanupday.us/) (WCD) is the third Saturday of September, which due to calendar vageries can drift from Sept 15 to Sept 21. But eco-groups urge us to think of all of September as World Cleanup Month. And that's a great idea. The idea of WCD began in the small country […]
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Talk Like A Pirate Day
Avast ye lubbers. International Talk Like a Pirate Day (http://talklikeapirate.com) is a day to show your Piratude. Created in 1995 by John Baur and Mark Summers, promulgated to worldwide popularity by humorist Dave Barry in a syndicated column, this is a secular holiday we can celebrate in many ways: garb like pirates, talk like pirates, […]
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Equinox (September)
The September Equinox is one of two days in the calendar year when day almost equal the night hours. In the northern hemisphere it is also the first day of Autumn or Fall (Gregorian calendar), called the Autumnal Equinox. (In the southern hemisphere it is the first day of Spring.) The Autumnal Equinox marks when green things begin […]