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 […]
It’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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
(http://www.bannedbooksweek.org/) September's end marks Banned Books Week, a celebration of the Freedom to Read, established by the American Library Association in 1981 in response to growing attempts to ban books in public libraries […]
Welcome all. Hobnob wih us at AOF's annual potluck picnic. Our picnics are always a blast. Just bring a picnicky dish to serve 6-8 people (+ serving utensils please). And […]
Davis Community Meal project The Davis Community Meal project serves meals to the hungry, the poor, the indigent, the outcast. It happens in bucolic Davis city, so near to us, where compassionate citizens […]
Secularists and freethinkers worldwide celebrate International Blasphemy Day (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy_Day) or "Blasphemy Rights Day" to mark the anniversary of when images of Muhammad appeared in the Denmark newspaper Jyllands-Posten in 2005. Conservative Muslims […]