Tony Norman wrote a nice piece about Jamy Ian Swiss in Today’s opinion section. Check it out at the Post-Gazette Web site. And don’t forget to attend Heavy Mental and the Science, Magic, and Skepticism workshop this Saturday.
Here is a write-up from the Trib: Workshop, show reveal how ‘mentalists’ work their magic

REMINDER: THIS MONDAY!
October 27 - 7:00 PM
Porter Hall, Carnegie Mellon Campus
Join Us for an Evening with
Toni Van Pelt
Director of CFI’s Office of Public Policy in Washington, D.C.
“Promoting Science & Reason in Law and Policy”
Scientific thinking is being challenged culturally in the United States today as never before. Despite the success of science and technology in providing us with unparalleled benefits, [...]

Magician, mentalist and skeptic Jamy Ian Swiss will explore the parallels between magic and skepticism at the Carnegie Science Center on Saturday, November 1.
Swiss will be hosting two events: A magic show titled Heavy Mental at 7:00 p.m. and a workshop from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. called Science, Magic, and Skepticism: A Natural Relationship. [...]

I just got back from seeing religious with some friends. They all had great opinions on the film, but I want to hear more. But to be honest with you I’m sick of ranty rambling reviews. So I’m challenging everyone to keep their review to 100 words or less.
Please respond to this video with one [...]

It may be your civic duty, but jury duty sucks and people are always looking for a way out of it.
About six weeks ago I received a summons to go through the jury selection process today. During that time whenever I would mention it to someone they’d suggest a way for me to get out of it. “Tell’em [...]

I thought I would mention this before I head out to dinner with the Skeptical Cowboy, it’s a great Center for Inquiry (CFI) promo a friend of mine had in their Facebook feed.
You’ll probably recognize a ton of people in this video, including Lawrence Krauss, who is speaking in Pittsburgh on Oct. 3. I recommend Googling anyone [...]

I love getting my weekly Pittsburgh Meetup calendar e-mail reminder.  This week I was especially happy to see that there’s a new Meetup in Ohio on Sept. 16 titled: Free Thinkers of Youngstown Meetup (click to see the location).
I wish I could go, but Youngstown is a bit of a trek for me.  Hopefully, some of you [...]

The Church of England is going to apologize to Charles Darwin.
It wants to distance itself from fundamentalist Christians, who believe in the Biblical account of the creation of the world in seven days.
Wow, the Church of England must be the only rational church in the world.
Dr Brown argues that there is nothing incompatible between the scientific theories [...]

I guess this is what you do when you don’t have a blog to argue on.
From Break.com

Stephen Hawking has bet $100the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) won’t find “God’s Particle.”
I hope he’s wrong, but either way I’m sure this experiment is going to result in a really kick-ass episode of The Universe.
Just in case all the scientists are wrong and universe does explode, I’m going to eat some trans-fats tomorrow (maybe Arby’s).
Incase you [...]