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Two Cultures: Sixty Years Later
Extraordinary Ventures 200 S. Elliott Rd, Chapel Hill, NC, United States"The Two Cultures" is the first part of an influential 1959 Rede Lecture by British scientist and novelist C. P. Snow. Its thesis was that "the intellectual life of the whole of western society" was split into two cultures – the sciences and the humanities – which was a major hindrance to solving the world's […]
Ensuring Fair Treatment of Youths Across All Institutions
Extraordinary Ventures 200 S. Elliott Rd, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesPeggy Nicholson, Youth Justice Project Director, Southern Coalition for Social Justice will speak about the work of the Youth Justice Project. That project works to ensure equity, fairness, and justice for youth in high-quality education, juvenile, and criminal systems. The goal of the project is to ensure that all people and institutions will treat youth […]
Election Fraud
Extraordinary Ventures 200 S. Elliott Rd, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesOn Sunday, May 12th, EHST friend and frequent visitor Andrew Silver will be our speaker. He will be discussing election fraud, focusing on electronic voting and voter suppression. His main points are: New voter ID laws disfranchise up to 10% of citizens in some states Paper ballots are not counted when optical scan machines miss […]
Exploring Ethical Decision Making
May 19th is our annual Founders Day celebration. This year our program will be: Exploring Ethical Decision Making. Every day we come across problems, large and small, that require some thought and comparisons to reach the ‘right’ decision. Often we have limited information but still need to take action. Today’s program will be a combination […]
The Spiritual Significance of the 2030 SDG Agenda and Ethical Culture
Our speaker will be Martha Gallahue, from the American Ethical Union. Martha Gallahue will speak of her work in interfaith cooperation with the URI (United Religions Initiative). In the face of comprehensive interdependence there is an urgent need in the world, using science) to grasp the coherence of the universe and why humans may be […]