http://www.steelcityskeptics.net Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:43:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Drinking Skeptically in Pittsburgh is this Friday. Where: The Bar, 2132 East Carson Street When: 7:00pm-11:00 Friday, February 19th. [3rd Friday of the month!] Joining us this month will be Ashley Paramore (the Healthy Addict) and Hemant Mehta (the Friendly Atheist), who are in town for a panel discussion at Jubilee 2010. We ... http://www.steelcityskeptics.net/2010/02/15/drink-skeptically-this-friday-with-ashley-paramore-and-hemant-mehta/ Drinking Skeptically in Pittsburgh is tonight! Where: The Bar, 2132 East Carson Street When: 7:30pm-11ish? Friday, January 15th. [3rd Friday of the month!] You can RSVP on Facebook or Meetup, and check out the Google map that shows the best places to find parking. http://www.steelcityskeptics.net/2010/01/15/tonight-is-drinking-skeptically-2/ Drinking Skeptically in Pittsburgh is tonight! Where: The Bar, 2132 East Carson Street When: 7:30pm-11ish? Friday, November 20th. [3rd Friday of the month!] You can RSVP on Facebook or Meetup, and check out the Google map that shows the best places to find parking. [caption id="attachment_561" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="FSM treats"][/caption] http://www.steelcityskeptics.net/2009/12/18/tonight-is-drinking-skeptically/ Just a quick reminder that Drinking Skeptically Pittsburgh is tomorrow! I probably can't make it but I hope you'll join the folks who've RSVP'd on Facebook and Meetup and say hello to our new organizer Bill C. He's keeping DS alive on those sites as Laura and I are no ... http://www.steelcityskeptics.net/2009/11/19/tomorrow-is-drinking-skeptically/ So this monthly thing we do? The one where we get together for drinks and fun? It's tomorrow, Friday September 18th, at 7:30, in the usual spot --The Bar on E. Carson. [More details & rsvps at Facebook and Meetup.] You should come out, especially if you're interested in taking over ... http://www.steelcityskeptics.net/2009/09/17/septembers-drinking-skeptically/ You are invited to join our monthly social gathering this Friday at The Bar @2132 E. Carson (South Side) for drinks and a swell time. Last month we had a ton of folks and 4 out of 4 Steel City Skeptics had an awesome time. (Polling sample of 4.) (Kidding! ... http://www.steelcityskeptics.net/2009/08/19/august-drinking-skeptically-pittsburgh/ We have a good selection of Christian (protestant-evangelical-charismatic) evangelism tracts here in the office, and I spent a portion of my lunch break perusing them. They are all written by the same author, and they target a wide range of religions--everything from Islam to "unsaved" Catholics to the Bahá'í Faith. Just ... http://www.steelcityskeptics.net/2009/08/05/tract-browsing/ Summer has been here for a couple of weeks, now, so that must mean that it is about time for some skeptical fun. CFI-Pittsburgh is holding it’s annual canoe excursion on the Youghiogheny River on Saturday August 15th. Those of you who participated last year, or who have seen the ... http://www.steelcityskeptics.net/2009/07/16/summer-fun/ If you are anything like me, you probably read quite a few science and skeptic blogs.  You might even be on twitter (Follow me here!) and follow all the awesome skeptics out there on the web, working hard to debunk pseudoscience and woo.  While I normally love staying up-to-date on ... http://www.steelcityskeptics.net/2009/07/13/miss-tam-catch-drinking-skeptically-in-the-burgh/ A recent post on Pharyngula (worth reading) has me thinking about standards of evidence. So many theist/atheist conversations could be truncated if the two parties declared at the outset exactly what is required for them to accept any given claim as "true." Unspoken assumptions about these standards end up frustrating ... http://www.steelcityskeptics.net/2009/07/12/first-lets-agree-on-our-standards/