I hope you said “Drinking Skeptically, of course!”
Friday, March 20th — 7:30pm @ The Claddagh Irish Pub in South Side Works. Ask the host or hostess for the Drinking Skeptically crew to see what lovely Claddagh room they’ve graciously given us this month.
Here’s the Facebook invite and the one at Meetup.com.
(Source photo of the old [...]
Our neighbors to the west, Central Ohioans for Rational Inquiry (CORI), are organizing an Ohio SkeptiCamp for May. If you’re not familiar with BarCamps, let me quote Wikipedia: “user generated conferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants.” Throw in skepticism and science and you’ve got SkeptiCamp. Now add the CORI crew [...]
Small town attention/thrill seekers form a ghost hunting team, meet a theater professor with a flair for the dramatic and have a sleepover in a university theater. Will you find out about their hijinx and adventure in the next Goosebumps novel? Oh no, gather ’round children — this story is coming to you straight from [...]
I wanted to share this beautiful animation that Parenting Beyond Belief author, Dale McGowan, posted to his blog, as I think it really illustrates some of the discussion that was going on at Friday’s Drinking Skeptically gathering about maintaining positive relationships with family members who are believers.
You can find more by Uk artist, Doug at [...]
Wanted to pass along some links I’ve been sent this week of interest to those in and around Pittsburgh . . .
1000 Plaintiffs for Newdow v. Roberts — Friends of Mike Newdow, a group of PA Nonbelievers, has set up a website to assist Constitutional activist Mike Newdow “demonstrate that there is a lot of [...]
In an email this morning local CFI President, Chuck Bobich, updates us on last night’s monthly dinner meeting with special guest, David Campbell:
The recent high winds snapped a pole along Route 51 near Francesco’s Restaurant. This not only killed power to the restaurant, but created a hazard that forced the blockage and a detour [...]
Well children, and by children I mean responsible adults 21 and 0lder – it is almost that time again. Pittsburgh’s Drinking Skeptically is the 3rd Friday of each month, which means February 20th we’ll be gathering once again at The Claddagh Irish Pub in South Side Works and hope you’ll join us!
Topics might include, but [...]
Did you know that Pittsburgh is home to an amazing Charles Darwin impersonator?
Dr. David Campbell of The Darwin Center For Science & Reason brings Darwin to life in Darwin Remembers, a theatrical experience from the voyage of The Beagle to his death with actors recreating the voices from the past. I’ve seen this performance on [...]
Tonight’s the night!
Hope to see you there! And bring friends because you’ll need help with whatever appetizer you order. Are you skeptical of this claim? Let’s test this theory!
Tonight’s program is going to be awesome! Astronomy!!!
Quoted from a message from CFIC-Pittsburgh’s Steering Committee Treasurer Chuck Bobich:
CFI Community of Pittsburgh will hold tonight’s general meeting at the Carnegie Science Center, starting at 7:00 PM and lasting to about 9:00. We’ll meet in the Digital Dome, where dome operator Frank Mancuso has outlined a [...]
