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Minnesota Atheists is Minnesota's oldest and largest atheist organization. We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit, educational organization that seeks to promote the positive contributions of atheism to society, provides a community for nonbelievers, educates the public about atheism, and promotes separation of state and church. We help make atheism part of mainstream society. We look forward to meeting you!
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Upcoming events (4+)
See all- MNA Online Book Club — Fluke by Brian KlaasLink visible for attendees
Join us online Sunday March 9th at 1 p.m. to discuss — Fluke: Chance, Chaos and Why Everything We Do Matters by Brian Klaas.
Please note the earlier time. We have moved an hour earlier to accommodate the multiple time zones in which our participants reside.
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If you could rewind your life to the very beginning and then press play, would everything turn out the same? Or could making an accidental phone call or missing an exit off the highway change not just your life, but history itself?
In Fluke, myth-shattering social scientist Brian Klaas takes a deep-dive into the phenomenon of random chance and the chaos it can sow, taking aim at most people’s neat and tidy version of reality. The book’s argument is that we willfully ignore a bewildering truth: but for a few small changes, our lives—and our societies—could be radically different.
Offering an entirely new lens, Fluke explores how our world really works, driven by strange interactions and apparently random events. How did one couple’s vacation cause 100,000 people to die? Does our decision to hit the snooze button in the morning radically alter the trajectory of our lives? And has the evolution of humans been inevitable, or are we simply the product of a series of freak accidents?
Drawing on social science, chaos theory, history, evolutionary biology, and philosophy, Klaas provides a brilliantly fresh look at why things happen—all while providing mind-bending lessons on how we can live smarter, be happier, and lead more fulfilling lives.
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Tentative future books are:
Seven Flowers: And How They Shaped Our World by Jennifer Potter
Corsets and Codpieces: A History of Outrageous Fashion, from Roman Times to the Modern Era by Karen Bowman
The Wisdom of Plagues by Donald McNeil
Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physicists Astray by Sabine Hossenfelder.If you would like us to read any of these titles, or have other book suggestions, please message me or leave a comment below.
