July 30
The College Conspiracy - Movie
National Inflation Association
Meetings # 3,129 - open discussion/debate to follow
Happy Holiday from the
Faculty and Students of the C of C
July 2
Defining "Happiness"
Meeting # 3,125 - Prof. Bob Lichtenbert says that:  "No definition can be given to this word because we have much cheapened it by overusing it.  This word is now highly relative and subjective, depending on each person's view of it.  It is now more psychological rather than philosophical in its popular usage.  Its meaning is thus indefinite to most people.  These then may well live unhappy lives if they do not know what it truly is. Most American adults are depressed or sad - the opposite of happy - about their lives."
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
July 9
Pilsen:  Anatomy of a Chicago Neighborhood
Meetings # 3,126 - Peter N. Pero, author, says:  "For nearly 150 years, Pilsen has been a port of entry for thousands of immigrants.  They found work in the mills, breweries, and Mon-and-Pop stores that populated this near westside community.  Much has changed but much remains the same in this colorful enclave of tight families, elaborate churches and sturdy bungalows.  Take the tour via a slide show on a new history book by Arcadia Press."  For information contact:   PPero40@hotmail.com
Prof. Lichtenbert (seekerofmeaning@yahoo.com) hosts the Chicago Colloquium for a Philosophy of Life which meets on the last Friday of each month at Barbara's Bookstore, 1218 S. Halsted, 7-9:00 PM: http://www.chgocolloquium.org/
July 16
The Coming Solar Shock Wave:  How a Massive Burst of Electromagnetic Radiation Will Result in the Meltdown of All Nuclear Reactors                           Program Includes Powerpoint Presentation
Meetings # 3,127 - Joseph Mayer, astronomer and physicist says:  "There is another danger to the operation of nuclear power generators world-wide:  Coronal Mass Ejections (CME) from our Sun which occur throughout the Sun's 22-year Sun spot cycle.  The Sun has now entered an active 5-year period of the active, 11-year cycle.
During a CME the Sun ejects billions of tons of charged particles into space usually in a narrow but widening cone-shaped configuration. A very large CME will plunge through Earth's magnetic field and interact with the high-tension power lines that crisscross the developed countries, and literally melts the transformers in the sub stations.  Currently the U.S. has three spare transformer sub stations to replace any that are damaged.  There are over two thousand substations in the U.S.  It takes about a month to install a spare sub station. 
The "Light Water Nuclear Reactors" in the U.S.-- essentially identical to the ones in Fukushima -- rely on electric pumps to circulate cooling water to the reactor cores; and to the Spent-Fuel-Rod cooling storage areas while awaiting recycling."
July 23
Solutions to Our Global Climate Crisis: 
A Look at Al Gore's Book "Our Choice"
Meeting # 3,128 - How should we get (and use) our energy?  Is nuclear power a solution to global warming?  How do we reduce our "greenhouse gases" from agriculture and deforestation?  What about carbon capture and sequestration at our coal plants?  What are the obstacles we need to overcome in order to take action? Energy-environmental researcher DENNIS NELSON, President of the Nuclear Energy Information Service (NEIS), examines these (and other) pertinent questions in a thought-provoking discussion of "OUR CHOICE: A PLAN TO SOLVE THE CLIMATE CRISIS" (2009) by Al Gore
Humans in space or at high altitudes, for example, in airplanes, risk exposure to intense radiation.
Stop by the CofC Table
July 30
Bughouse Square Debates
1:00 PM - Washington Square Park - 60 W. Walton
Documentary
Debate/Discussion
College Conspiracy debunks many myths, including the belief that Americans with college degrees earn $1 million more in lifetime income compared to high school graduates without a college degree.

The most important basic fact that most Americans don’t understand about 4-year colleges is that most Americans spend 6 years attending them before graduating. With U.S. tuition inflation for private colleges averaging 5.15% over the past half a decade, assuming this same rate of tuition inflation continues, a college with tuition of $30,000 today will have tuition of $38,563 in the sixth year a student attends it.

In College Conspiracy, NIA analyzes the total cost to attend college by factoring in not just rapidly rising tuition expenses, but also the interest payments on student loans, and the lost income that college students would have earned if they worked at an average entry-level job that doesn’t require a college degree.