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Visit to Plymouth

posted 7 Jun 2010 04:38 by Michael Paynter   [ updated 7 Jun 2010 06:04 ]

I am the South-West representative for the National Federation of Student Atheist, Humanist and Secularist Societies (AHS).  Part of my role is to keep regional societies engaged with the AHS and to organise socials and cooperation regionally.  However, Bristol AASS is the only active society in the South-West, so it's not too hard to organise things at the moment!

Bristol AASS has been in contact with Alex Charlton for a while.  He is a Univeristy of Plymouth undergraduate, blogger for Young Freethought and very interested in setting up a society at the University!  Olly, Greg, Semy and I  took a road-trip down to Plymouth to visit him and we discussed the mechanics of running an atheist society over lunch.  He had a lot of his own ideas, having drafted a logo and naming the society University of Plymouth Atheist Society (UPAS).  We gave our input with the sorts of events he could hold and the sorts of people he could invite to speak at his society.  In the glorious sunshine we headed out to Plymouth Hoe to enjoy the stiff sea breeze, partially stifled by the truck festival honking away on Hoe Road.

We were also to meet Sid Remmer, leader of the Plymouth Humanists, but he was caught up in an unplanned work engagement.  He apologised, and said he hoped to meet us in future to discuss issues facing Plymouth Humanists including Protest the Pope, council prayers and a new Scientology centre (boooo!).

We wish both Alex and Sid success with their societies in Plymouth.

Epigram Science Articles

posted 12 Mar 2010 03:25 by Michael Paynter

Epigram (the University of Bristol's Student Newspaper) has some good articles in its Science section.  Of particular interest is a review of science blogs and an investigation into how libel laws are misused resulting in the stifling of science.

Forum

posted 18 Feb 2010 00:03 by Melissa Isobelle

We now have a forum so that you can be cool and rant on the internet!

'Wired' article about pseudoscience & vaccination

posted 21 Oct 2009 02:29 by Adam Semenenko

A recent article in Wired magazine, An Epidemic of Fear, touches on some of the issues discussed in our recent pseudoscience & spirituality discussion.

Pub Crawl

posted 27 Sep 2009 07:18 by Melissa Isobelle

We are kicking off the term with our annual pub crawl, starting at Bar 100 on Tuesday 6th October. See the Winter Term Calendar for more information.

Website Revised

posted 26 Sep 2009 03:36 by Adam Semenenko   [ updated 27 Sep 2009 07:31 by Melissa Isobelle ]

Our website has been updated so that we now own own the domain name. Let's get this show on the road.

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