SSA eMpirical No. 20
Submitted by Lyz on Wed, 2007-06-27 19:05.
Secular Student eMpirical 06/28/2007 |
In this issue:
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Editor-in-Chief:
Elizabeth R.A. Liddell
Editors: Alison Bates, August E. Brunsman IV, Nic Hall, Hemant Mehta, Jessica Sharon
| Introduction Summer's here! School's out, finals are done, and grades (whether good or bad) are in. We all know how crazy the last few weeks of school can be, and how the first few weeks of summer are great for just kicking back and doing, well, nothing. So we've kept this issue on the shorter side so you can spend less time in front of the computer and get outside in the sun! For those of you who just can't stand having nothing to do, I hear your pain. So, when next issue comes out, it'll be full of summer activities for the secular-student-on-summer-break. In the meantime, a little fun in the sun won't hurt you. SSA board member Jacquie Kuzma writes about the New Humanism conference's panel discussing the "Next Generation" of humanists. Leaders from several large student groups shared the table in this discussion on the future of organized humanism. Read more...  SSA Executive Director August Brunsman reports on a meeting at the New Humanism conference in April. Leaders from fifteen humanist organizations met to discuss the future of educating leaders for the humanist movement. August discusses the meeting, its goals, and what may be in store for the humanist movement. Read more...  Om Prasad Upreti is the National Secretary for HUMAN, the Humanist Association of Nepal. In this article, he explains some of the religious/humanist struggles occurring in his country and shows what his organization is doing about it. Read more...  Alison Smith is the founder of the group SAPS, Skeptical Analysis of the Paranormal Society. The group focuses on debunking, recreating and exploring paranormal phenomena in an honest experiment to find out what's really there. Here, she writes about why she founded the group and what they do. To see their work, check out their website at www.skepticalanalysis.com. Read more... Of all the students we interviewed at the New Humanism conference, one conversation stands out in its experience and insight. Leah Vincent and Paul Reisz are from Brooklyn, where they both attended and recently graduated from college. Leah will be attending Harvard University for graduate school in August, where she plans to become involved with the Harvard Graduate Humanist Community. Read more...  When headlines hit the news last month about a new study showing that “religion is good for kids,” I got a little cranky. Fortunately, several people rebutted the study. Thanks to their excellent work, my own critique of the study would be redundant. Instead, I want to offer some tips and tricks for the skeptical reader of research findings. You don’t have to be an expert in the field of study to use these tactics to help you assess the quality of research. Read more...  Can study of intelligent design actually lead to more belief in evolution? Andi Weiss Bartczak, Ph.D. sends us this Science Snippet from BioScience magazine. Read more... | 
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