On my way into work today, I was listening to the Non-Prophets podcast and was delighted to hear them read a letter from someone in Pittsburgh asking them to mention SCS.
The shout-out comes about an hour and five minutes into the show.  If you’re not already subscribed to the Non-Prophets, go get it on iTunes [...]

Hey yins:
Don’t miss this month’s Pittsburgh Secular Freethinkers Meetup.
Here is the description from Andrew the organizer:
For September, we will discuss Gnosticism, a belief system in which knowledge or “gnosis” leads to salvation. This isn’t scientific knowledge or rational knowledge, nor is it philosophy. It is an awareness and understanding of reality that goes against much [...]

Like, dark matter is totally the new black hole.
Cosmic crash unmasks dark matter (BBC News)
I’m not  going to pretend like I understand this stuff. But, I give a lot of credit to astronomers and physicists for coming up with great acronyms like WIMPS and MACHOS that make science more accessible to the general public. Unlike [...]

A recap of my six-month journey into Pittsburgh’s secular community.
My first experience with Pittsburgh’s skeptic community was via the first-and-only meeting of the now-dissolved Pittsburgh Atheist Meetup. The Atheist Meetup was great. We talked about everything from Monty Python’s Life of Brian to our own personal conversion stories (which all seemed to start with either [...]