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07.14.11While I was away…In 2010, I graduated from UCLA and stepped down as president of BASS. But I was still interested in how BASS did in the past year. I was secretly hoping that BASS was in decline, proving that I wasn't so terrible a president as I thought. But if BASS was thriving, I'd settle for that too! So I decided to gather evidence... by stalking BASS on Facebook. BASS had a UFOlogist come over to speak, AND they made a bunch of cool hand-drawn posters, AND they made alien-head-shaped cookies for the event. They counter-protested the Westboro Baptist Church (the "God ...
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05.24.10Quantum Mechanics for skepticsAt the last BASS meeting, I made a presentation called "Quantum Mechanics for the skeptic: How to recognize quantum nonsense without being a physicist". Quantum Mechanics for the skeptic Featuring appearances by: Professor Farnsworth, Professor X, the Great A'Tuin, Richard Feynman, and Deepak Chopra.
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04.18.10I Sold My Soul on eBayWelcome to our upcoming talk: Featuring Hemant Mehta, the "Friendly Atheist" When: Friday, April 23rd, 6:00 PM Where: UCLA, Royce Hall 156 RSVP on Facebook In 2006, Hemant Mehta "sold his soul" on eBay by offering to go to the worship service of the highest bidder's choice. He ended up touring many churches and wrote about his experiences. Come hear about faith seen through an atheist's eyes. Hemant Mehta is the author of "I Sold My Soul on eBay," blogs as the "Friendly Atheist" at http://friendlyatheist.com/, and is the Chair of the Secular Student Alliance (SSA) Board of ...
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03.06.10Presentation: Separation of Church and StateBack in January, at a general BASS meeting, Steven gave a presentation on the separation of church and state. Enjoy! Presentation: Separation of Church and State
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01.17.10BASS protests the Westboro Baptist ChurchThe Westboro Baptist Church (run by the Phelps family) is the group best known for those colorful "God Hates Fags" signs, which they use to picket soldier funerals, among other things. They appeared at Beverly Hills today, so we organized a group of mostly BASS members to go counter-protest them. Shirley Phelps-Roper in Beverly Hills Continue Reading...
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