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 [...]

This Thursday brings the monthly meeting of our Pittsburgh chapter of the Center For Inquiry. Some folks are gathering for dinner beforehand and you are welcome to join us. (Drop a reply here or at the Facebook invite if you’re coming so we know to make room.)
Pre-meeting dinner:
When - Thursday December 11th 5:30-6:30ish
Where - Jerome [...]

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

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 [...]

At our pre-meeting dinner gathering at Bettis Grille, Brandon was the only one who braved the deep fried cheeseburger. Although, rumor has it BillH has successfully taken on one of their deep fried meatloaf sandwiches in the past. We, as skeptics of course, require proof. Research grants may or may not be available for proposals delving [...]

A number of years ago, there was a colorful figure in baseball named Yogi Berra, and what Yogi was most famous for were his malapropisms or maybe his “Yogi-isms”. One of his better known was the statement “It’s just like déjà vu all over again”. This statement came quite readily to mind as I reflected [...]

This evening is the monthly CFI Pittsburgh freeform discussion group at the Quaker Meeting House in Shadyside. [Map] It starts at 7pm.
Laura and I will have our laptops on hand and will be able to answer any questions you might have on joining in to blog with us on this site after the meeting. (And [...]

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 [...]