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Heard Bad Religion’s Greg Graffin on NPR’s Here and Now? Get tickets now, while they last!

Greg Graffin has made his name as a rock star science professor. But he’s got one thing Steven Pinker doesn’t: a record deal.

…And the Harvard Humanist Chaplaincy’s 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award! Since creating his punk rock band Bad Religion in 1980, Graffin has been recording and touring, boasting such hits as “How Could Hell be Any Worse” and “American Jesus.” Holding a PhD from Cornell in evolutionary biology, Graffin teaches life science courses on Darwin and natural selection at UCLA when not on the Warped Tour or shooting a video. On Saturday April 26th, Graffin will play an acoustic concert and speak about his faith–not in God, but in Humanism.

If you’re a Bad Religion fan, a Humanist, atheist or agnostic, or just interested in science and religion, or rock music, don’t miss this unique evening!

Date: Saturday, April 26, 2008
Time: 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: The Memorial Church, Harvard

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Get tickets at the Harvard Box Office! $5 students, $10 public.

For more info see Bad Religion’s videos at mtv.com; Graffin’s book, “Is Belief in God Good, Bad, or Irrelevant?” (with Preston Jones); or any of the 14 studio albums that have made Bad Religion one of the most successful and influential punk bands of all time.

Featured Student Voices is a new monthly feature at harvardhumanist.org. In March we featured the Harvard Divinity School’s Mary Ellen Giess. This month we proudly highlight the work of Harvard Humanist graduate student David Rand of the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics.

Winners Don’t Punish

“Put simply, winners don’t punish,” says co-author David G. Rand of Harvard’s Program for Evolutionary Dynamics and Department of Systems Biology. “Punishment can lead to a downward spiral of retaliation, with destructive outcomes for everybody involved. The people with the highest total payoffs do not use costly punishment.”

David G. Rand is a Ph.D. student in Harvard’s Department of Systems Biology. He is a member of the Program of Evolutionary Dynamics, where he studies human cooperation and altruism. His research combines mathematical and computational methods with behavior experiments to give a robust understand of the evolution of cooperation. It’s a happy fact of life that in most situations, it pays to be nice!

David is an active member of the Harvard Humanist Graduate Community, as well as the Secular Student’s Alliance Speakers Bureau. Outside of academics, David also likes to write folk-punk and electro songs. Most winter and summer breaks you can find him riding in a van, playing shows up and
down the East coast under the name Robot Goes Here. You can hear audio and see a music video at www.robotgoeshere.com. Impressive acheivements in science and rock music– does anyone sense a theme for this month?

Read more about David’s article, “Winners Don’t Punish,” in the Harvard Gazette. And listen to David discuss the piece on NPR’s “All Things Considered“.