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The Fermi Paradox
10/13/2019
Erasmo Acosta

Erasmo Acosta discusses possible solutions to the Fermi Paradox. In 1950, physicist Enrico Fermi asked “Where is Everybody?” He was referring to the size and age of our galaxy, and to the fact that a civilization only a few million years older than ours should have already completely colonized the Milky Way. So where are the aliens? Mr. Acosta was raised by an atheist family in Venezuela. He came to the U.S. in 1996 as a software engineer. He currently works in cyber security for an Israeli software firm.

The Pioneer Childhood of Dr. Esther Lovejoy
10/06/2019
Amy Khedouri

Amy Khedouri shares exciting and amusing stories, in Dr. Lovejoy’s own words, of her early years in a remote lumber town, and how a girl with little formal education became one of the first women doctors in the state of Oregon. Ms. Khedouri is a second generation Humanist and a frequent visitor to our group. She worked for Dr. Lovejoy as a child and as a young woman. She has recently published an ebook about Dr. Lovejoy’s pioneer childhood.

Russian Astronomy in the Nineteenth Century
09/22/2019
Michael Meo

Michael Meo tells the story of the rise and the fall of Russian astronomy during the nineteenth century. Here was the first astronomer to observe stellar parallax, the predicted direct evidence of the earth’s orbit around the sun, sought for since the days of Galileo. Michael Meo earned a B.S. in astronomy from Cal Tech in 1969, took an M.A. in the history of science from U.C. Berkeley in 1970, and then served as museum technician at the Smithsonian Institution in 1975 to 1977.

Men and Violence
09/15/2019
Chris Huffine

The vast majority of the perpetrators violence are male, yet rarely is this unifying demographic identified in discussions on reducing violence. Chris Huffine looks at what it is about masculinity that contributes to the male propensity for violence and what can be done to change it. Dr. Huffine is a licensed psychologist and Executive Director of Allies in Change in Portland. He has worked with thousands of abusive men and dozens of female and male victims of abuse.

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