The Google Boys
Posted by Tamara in Uncategorized on January 18, 2012
When was the first time you used Google? Can’t remember? Then, when was Google started? Have you ever googled about Google!?
Find out in the documentary: The Google Boys about the guys who started the internet giant and how Google Search works.
This Friday at 12pm in the Presentation Room of the Student Center. There will be a FREE PIZZA lunch!
Go to the Facebook Event and select attend if you are coming.
Also, don’t forget about the Meetup at 1pm in North Building Cafe today!
Hope to see you there!
Religulous
Posted by Tamara in Uncategorized on October 9, 2011
What is the current state of world religion? Find out Bill Maher’s take on it.
Movie Screening – Religulous (Bill Maher)
Thursday, October 13, 2011
FREE PIZZA + POP @ 5:00 pm!
Student Centre – Presentation Room, Lower Level
Followed by a discussion on topics relevant to the film.
Annual General Meeting
Posted by Tamara in Uncategorized on March 22, 2011
We will be having our 2010/11 Annual General Meeting to wrap up the year. Details of the meeting are below:
Date: Friday, April 1, 2010
Time: 3:00 pm
Place: Room 280 (Lounge), Student Centre
This meeting will include: A review of this years events, financial review, plans for next year, and voting in of new executive members!
We are looking for bright, outgoing, organized, and enthusiastic people to continue running the Mississauga Freethought Association. The following executive positions are available for the 2011/12 year:
- President
- Vice President
- Secretary
- Treasurer
- Publicity and Media Relations
- Community Relations
If you are interested in running for an executive position, send us an email with your name, year of study at UTM, position you’re interested in, and a brief (3-5 sentences) statement on why you would be the best person for the job.
Some reasons to consider being part of the MFA executive:
- Great way to get involved in Campus Life!
- Great way to meet new people!
- Looks great on a resume!
- Ability to bring important issues to the student body!
- Encourage critical thinking!
- Promote science!
- All the cool kids are doing it!
We hope to see you there!
What does it mean to be Equal?
Posted by Tamara in Events, Philosophy on March 21, 2011
Movie screening of “2081″ based on Kurt Vonnegut’s “Harrison Bergeron”. 2081 depicts a dystopian future in which, thanks to the 212th Amendment to the Constitution and the unceasing vigilance of the United States Handicapper General, everyone is “finally equal….”
Movie screening to be followed by a talk by Professor Geoffrey Hamilton from the Department of English & Drama who will be leading a discussion about American ideas of equality, freedom, and the role of government as they relate to this film.
High Anxieties: The Mathematics of Chaos
Posted by Tamara in Uncategorized on February 9, 2011
Join Mississauga Freethought Association and UTM Mathematical and Computational Science Society for a free screening of “The Mathematics of Chaos”. The documentary looks at the modern advances in mathematics and how they affect our understanding of physics, economics, environmental issues and human psychology.
The film looks at how developments in 20th Century mathematics have affected our view of the world, and particularly how the financial economy and earth’s environment are now seen as inherently unpredictable. The film looks at the influence the work of Henri Poincare and Alexander Lyapunov had on later developments in mathematics. It includes interviews with David Ruelle, about chaos theory and turblence, the economist Paul Ormerod about the unpredictability of economic systems, and James Lovelock the founder of Gaia theory about climate change and tipping points in the environment.
As we approach tipping points in both the economy and the climate, the film examines the mathematics we have been reluctant to face up to and asks if, even now, we would rather bury our heads in the sand rather than face harsh truths.
Celebrating Charles Darwin’s Birthday
Posted by Tamara in Events, Science and Technology on February 4, 2011
February 12th 2011 marks the 202nd birthday anniversary of Charles Darwin, famous scientist, naturalist and humanist. Mississauga Freethought Association presents two events on Thursday February 10th to celebrate the occasion.
- Join us for a screening of a documentary on The Life of Charles Darwin. Find out the man behind the theory of evolution, and his journey into proposing the same.
FREE Pizza and Pop
Location – Presentation Room, Student Center at UofT Mississauga
Time – 4pm, Thursday February 10th 2011
- Join the Halton-Peel Humanist Community with a public lecture by Dr. Kevin Seymour, ROM Assistant Curator in Vertebrate Palaeontology.
Dr. Seymour will speak about the growing concern that human activities are driving the extinction of animals all over the world, and implications of the loss of such biodiversity.
FREE ADMISSION.Location – Mississauga Central Library, Room CL3
Time – 6:30pm, Thursday February 10th 2011
The events are open to public. Join the Mississauga Freethought Association Facebook group to stay updated with upcoming events.
Hope to see you there!
WikiRebels: WikiLeaks Documentary
Join us for a screening of WikiRebels and some FREE PIZZA AND POP on Wednesday, January 19th at 1 pm at the Student Centre Presentation Room.
In WikiRebels, we learn about the early hacker life of Julian Assange, and his later decision to form an organization where whistleblowers can anonymously pass information that documents crime and immorality. His stated goal is to expose injustice, and nothing exemplifies this more than the leaked film entitled “Collateral Murder.”
WikiLeaks, in its short time since conception has released more classified documents than the rest of the world press combined.
Support it or denounce it, this documentary is an in-depth look into the working of the organization and its implications in the global political scene.
Annual General Meeting (AGM) – April 1
Posted by admin in Events, MFA Website on March 23, 2010
We will be having our 2009/10 Annual General Meeting to wrap up the year. Details of the meeting are below:
Date: Thursday, April 1, 2010
Time: 5:00 pm
Place: Room 250 (Lounge), Student Centre
This meeting will include: A review of this years events, financial review, plans for next year, and voting in of new executive members!
We are looking for bright, outgoing, organized, and enthusiastic people to continue running the Mississauga Freethought Association. The following executive positions are available for the 2010/11 year:
- President
- Vice President
- Secretary
- Treasurer
- Publicity and Media Relations
- Community Relations
If you are interested in running for an executive position, send us an email with your name, year of study at UTM, position you’re interested in, and a brief (3-5 sentences) statement on why you would be the best person for the job.
Some reasons to consider being part of the MFA executive:
- Great way to get involved in Campus Life!
- Great way to meet new people!
- Looks great on a resume!
- Ability to bring important issues to the student body!
- Encourage critical thinking!
- Promote science!
- All the cool kids are doing it!
We hope to see you there!
Tom Ulanowski,
President
Killing Us Softly 3
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on March 3, 2010
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Killing Us Softly 3
In Partnership with the UTM Women’s Centre
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Jean Kilbourne continues her groundbreaking analysis of advertising’s depiction of women in this most recent update of her pioneering Killing Us Softly series. In fascinating detail, Kilbourne decodes an array of print and television advertisements to reveal a pattern of disturbing and destructive gender stereotypes. Her analysis challenges us to consider the relationship between advertising and broader issues of culture, identity, sexism, and gender violence.
Questions addressed are: Does the beauty ideal still tyrannize women?
| Does advertising still objectify women’s bodies? | Are the twin
themes of liberation and weight control still linked? | Is sexuality still presented as women’s main concern? | Are young girls still sexualized? | Are grown women infantilized? | Are images of male violence against women still used to sell products?
We look forward to viewing the video and then having an informal discussion on the information presented..
This is a free event.
Brought to you by the Mississauga Freethought Association (www.freethoughtcanada.ca) and the UTM women’s Centre (http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/~w3women/uwomhis.html)
Third Annual Darwin Day Lecture!
Posted by admin in Events, Science and Technology on February 20, 2010
Join the MFA and the Halton-Peel Humanist Community this Monday, February 22, 2010 for our third annual Darwin Day lecture, celebrating the 201st birthday of Charles Darwin!
Dr. Jason Head will be giving a lecture on “Natural selection and adaptations as logical theories in studying evolution”.
Details of the event:
Monday, February 22, 2010
6:30 pm
Room 2080, South Building, UTM
FREE ADMISSION
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Jason Head is a vertebrate paleontologist and biologist who studies the evolutionary histories of reptiles, primarily from 66.5 million years ago to the present. He received a B.S. in biology from the University of Michigan in 1995, a Ph.D. in geology from Southern Methodist University in 2002, and has conducted field research in Pakistan, Tanzania, Mali, India, Jordan, and North America. While collecting Miocene reptile fossils in Pakistan, Jason developed an interest in the relationship of reptile diversity and body size to climate change, especially in snakes. His subsequent research includes quantitative analysis of skeletal morphology in modern and fossil lizards and snakes in order to reconstruct historical patterns of genetic control and development of the reptile axial skeleton, as well as continuing studies of paleoecology and paleoclimate, inferred from the fossil record. In 2009, Jason described the Worlds largest snake, Titanoboa cerrejonensis, and developed a method for estimating paleotemperature from body size in fossil reptiles. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Toronto, Mississauga, a research associate and the Royal Ontario Museum, and an Adjunct Assistant Curator at the Florida Museum of Natural History.