Mulat Pinoy is a project by the Philippine Center for Population and Development (PCPD) and the Probe Media Foundation, Inc (PMFI) to spread awareness of population issues. They launched the site last Dec 19, and FF were actually invited to attend the launch event (thanks to an RH Bill related article in our site). Unfortunately, it coincided with the Winter Solstice party which is obviously more important than any population issue. Seriously though, we were invited the night before the event, so it was a bit too late to change the FF schedule.
And now, FF is invited to the Mulat Pinoy Kapihan Series. They’ve provided us the schedule and topics for the next 3 months:
2-4pm, Bo’s Coffee, Glorietta 5, Makati City
January 16 – Population and Environment January 23 – Government Resources and Population Dynamics January 30 – Population and Housing February 13 – Population and Food Supply February 27 – Population and Education March 13 – Population and Health March 27 – Urbanization/Migration April 10 – Mulat Pinoy Synthesis
I was informed that presidential candidates Nick Perlas and JC Delos Reyes & his VP Dominador Chipeco will be attending this Saturday’s Kapihan Session on Population and Environment. If you’re scratching your head, wondering who they are (as I did), click on the links.
It was a pleasant surprise for me when I discovered this film in Apple Trailers. But Ryan tells me it’s not so new and it just didn’t have a distributor due to its controversial content. Well, it seems they have one now, Newmarket Films, so thank God!
I personally prefer this trailer version, or perhaps this, but they are not embeddable. Here’s an old embeddable trailer instead:
It stars Paul Bettany as Charles Darwin and Jennifer Connely as Darwin’s religious wife. It’s based on Annie’s Box, the biography written by Randal Keynes, Darwin’s great-great-grandson. This movie is set to be released on January 22, 2010. I wonder if it’ll make the FF Film Festival. Will it ever be released here? Also, has anyone read Annie’s Box?
I remember talking to innerminds during the first FF Davao Meet-up, and he was explaining his stance of being a Deist. He said something along the lines of: if the Big Bang is the beginning of the Universe, all the matter still had to come from somewhere, and he refers to the source as the Creator. He said a lot more than that, of course, which I will no longer elaborate so I won’t misrepresent him further. But in reply, I recommended that he watch one of the videos from Atheists Alliance International 2009 Conference, where a physicist talked about Cosmology and particularly interesting was his discussion about the net Energy of the Universe. Here’s Dr. Lawrence Krauss and his talk entitled “A Universe From Nothing”.
Btw, the rest of the AAI 2009 Conference talks are available in this youtube playlist.
I was checking out Seed’s Daily Zeitgeist the other day, Seed Magazine’s list of fresh Science-related links, and I just discovered God has His own webshow! Obviously, it’s the best online show about Him that you’ll ever find. Seed linked to Mr. Deity and the Science Advisor episode, but I suggest you start with this first episode.
