With over three decades of experience as a physician, Dr. Novella is a respected expert in neurology and cognitive neuroscience. He is best known for his involvement in the skeptical movement and as the host of The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe podcast.

This video is excerpted from a presentation to the Humanists and Freethinkers of Fairfield County (CT) on September 9, 2025.

With over three decades of experience as a physician, Dr. Novella is a respected expert in neurology and cognitive neuroscience. He is best known for his involvement in the skeptical movement and as the host of The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe podcast.

This video is excerpted from a presentation to the Humanists and Freethinkers of Fairfield County (CT) on September 9, 2025.

The program for this episode:

• Introduction to Humanism Today
• Overview by Cary Shaw, President Emeritis, HFFC
• Introduction by Susan Bysiewicz, CT Lieutenant Governor
• Invocation by Cary Shaw
• Conclusion by CT Senator, Bob Duff

Humanists and freethinkers of Fairfield County, Ct (HFFC) provides a wide variety of activities and programs for atheists, humanists, freethinkers and other nonreligious people. Find out more about us at hffcct.org.

This video will allow you to get to know Antoinette Brim-Bell.

Download the summary sheet of best Practices: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10NKb5ZyDKAu9eTRzrQYaSD2XV-7aTzsI/view?usp=sharing.

Michael A. is a Managing Director at Blue Owl Capital and member of the Information Technology Team. In his role, he is responsible for the technology and security aspects of the firm's Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) framework. He partners closely with Legal, Compliance, and other stakeholders to ensure Blue Owl's technology operations align with its regulatory, risk management, and strategic objectives.

This program was presented to the Humanists and Freethinkers of Fairfield County (CT) on February 10, 2025.

Herb Silverman is founder and president emeritus of the Secular Coalition for America; founder of the Secular Humanists of the Lowcountry in Charleston, South Carolina; and founder and former faculty advisor to the College of Charleston student Atheist/Humanist Alliance. Herb has written for “On Faith” at the Washington Post, Huffington Post, The Humanist, and other magazines and blogs.

Dale is a senior VP emeritus and distinguished analyst at Gartner, who's worked with CIOs and senior business executives around the world to help them better manage and exploit technology and information to drive business transformation. But more importantly, to advise what is in store for them in the future. He's also an accomplished poet. writes haikus. He's an avid skier and tennis player.

We're thrilled to host this conversation between historian Brenda Wineapple and HFFC member and Connecticut attorney Stephen Keough.

Brenda Wineapple's latest book is Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation which is the basis for this podcast. She is an award-winning historian, literary critic and essayist and author of seven nonfiction books. She is the recipient of such honors as the literature award of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Guggenheim Fellowship and Pushcart Prize. She was a finalist with a National Book Critics Circle Award, and most recently, a Coleman Fellow at the New York Public Library. She teaches in the MFA program at Columbia University.

Stephen Keough is a graduate of Yale College and Columbia Law School. He practices in the area of elder law, trust, and estates, long-term care and federal needs, and is a frequent speaker to the bar and the general bar on these topics. He's also an adjunct member of the faculty at UConn Law School, where he teaches the school's elder law clinic. He's a member of the Community Bioethics Forum under the auspices of the Yale Medical School Program for Biomedical Ethics. Stephen also shared that his great, great, great, great grandfather was from Tennessee and would probably be turning over in his grave right now. 

This episode was recorded on March 9, 2025.

You can find more information of interest to humanists, freethinkers, atheists, agnostics, nonreligious and nonbelievers at the Humanists and Freethinkers of Fairfield County (Connecticut) website: HFFCCT.org.

This video is an excerpt from a presentation by Peter Millman at a meeting of the Humanists and Freethinkers of Fairfield County (Connecticut) on April 13, 2025.

The opinions expressed in this video are the presenter's own. HFFC does not necessarily endorse these opinions.

You can find more information of interest to humanists, freethinkers, atheists, agnostics, nonreligious and nonbelievers at the Humanists and Freethinkers of Fairfield County (Connecticut) website: HFFCCT.org.

This video is excerpted from a presentation to the Humanists and Freethinkers of Fairfield County (CT) on September 9, 2024.

You can find more information of interest to humanists, freethinkers, atheists, agnostics, nonreligious and nonbelievers at the Humanists and Freethinkers of Fairfield County (Connecticut) website: HFFCCT.org.

This video is excerpted from a presentation to the Humanists and Freethinkers of Fairfield County (CT) on February 13, 2023.

You can find more information of interest to humanists, freethinkers, atheists, agnostics, nonreligious and nonbelievers at the Humanists and Freethinkers of Fairfield County (Connecticut) website: HFFCCT.org.