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Scientology’s Dirty Tricks
09/27/2015
Tony Ortega

Journalist Tony Ortega tells the story of Paulette Cooper, a magazine freelancer who, in 1971, exposed some of the tactics of Scientology and, as a result, was framed by the leaders of that religion. This involved fake bomb-threat letters and she was facing 15 years in federal prison if convicted. She was finally exonerated after the FBI raided Scientology in 1977. From 2007 to 2012, Ortega was editor in chief of The Village Voice, and he's been investigating and writing about Scientology since 1995.

Probability & Scientific Inference (1)
09/20/2015
Laurent Beauregard

In Part One of a two-part presentation, Laurent Beauregard discusses how probability works in each of three familiar situations. He invites you to contrast your intuitions about certain probabilities with what they actually turn out to be. There are surprises and, as a result, we gain insights into how probability works. Two lucky people will probably win a bag of M&Ms. Laurent holds an M.S. in physics and a Ph.D. in the history and philosophy of science. He has taught at U.C.L.A. and at Reed College. He is currently a member of the HGP Web committee and he edits the videos that you find on the front page of our website.

Pollinators, Pesticides, and Alternatives
09/13/2015
Sharon Selvaggio

Sharon Selvaggio discusses the importance of pollinators for our food and ecological systems, what's behind documented declines, the science relating pesticides to pollinator impacts, alternatives, and what you can do to help. Ms. Selvaggio has spent 27 years with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. She has been a conservation planner and wildlife biologist and is experienced in forest habitat management. She holds an M.S. in Energy and Resources, and a B.A. in Biology, both from the University of California at Berkeley. © Northwest Center for Alternatives to Pesticides

Science and Spirit, part 2
08/30/2015
E. Baird Smith

Part Two of a two-part presentation. Since classical antiquity,
 we have had two perspectives on the nature of reality – one from the head and the other from the heart. We have found science to be more persuasive than religion. But this has led to the loss of the divine.  In this presentation, E. Baird Smith looks at Big History and Evolution in the light of two twentieth century scientists who were also deeply spiritual – Albert Einstein and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. 
Mr. Smith is a teacher of science and theology. He spent thirty years as a computer scientist at IBM programming. After moving to Portland, Oregon, he studied Theology at the Trinity Center for Spiritual Development. (HGP does not take responsibility for material presented by our speakers.)

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