2012 02/25 Skyping Skeptically with Skeptoid’s own Brian Dunning!
Saturday, February 25, 2012, 12:30 PM Location: Black Rock 3614 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL Brian Dunning of Skeptoid podcast, InFact skeptical video series, Skepticblog and creator of “Here Be Dragons”...
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2012 02/23 Skeptical Salon: How To Lie With Statistics
Thursday, February 23, 2012, 7:30 PM Location: Jen’s Place 5 E. 14th Place, #1705, Chicago, 60605, Chicago, IL (map) (Look up Newport on the buzzer How To Lie With Statistics, Darrell Huff A brief...
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2012 01/28 Skepticamp Chicago!
Saturday, January 28, 2012 from 10:00 AM – 6 PM. Full details at our Skepticamp Page.
View Article2012 01/24 Let’s Talk Skeptically Abt Free Will – please note *NEW* date change
ANOTHER DATE CHANGE (Apologies. This will not change again, even if Elmer can’t be there.) Tuesday, January 24, 2012, 7:00 PM Location: Goose Island Brew Pub1800 N. Clybourn, Chicago, IL Hosted by:...
View Article2012 01/14 A Festivus for the Rest of Us
Saturday, January 14, 2012, 7:00 PM Location: Jen’s Place, 60605 Keep an eye on this post in case of venue change. Work in progress toward fun! This is a Party where the extent to which you delve into...
View Article2011 12/17 Not an endorsement!
Saturday, December 17, 2011, 12:30 PM Location: Black Rock 3614 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL (we’ll be in the back room) Hosted by: Jairus Not an endorsement! (or “How I learned to stop worrying and love...
View Article2011 11/19 Chicago Skeptics Meetup: The Anti Birth Control Movement
Saturday, November 19, 2011, 12:30 PM Black Rock 3614 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL (map) we’ll be in the back room Chicago Skeptics member Corina is getting together a talk to discuss the science and...
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2011 11/17 Skeptical Salon: The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson
Thursday, November 17, 2011, 7:30 PM Jen’s Place 5 E. 14th Place, #1705, Chicago, 60605, Chicago, IL (map) Note: this is a week earlier than our usual salons ‘cus of Thaksgiving; look for Newport on...
View Article2011 11/12 Carl Sagan Day, Chicago
Saturday, November 12, 2011, 6:00 PM Hughes Auditorium, Robert H. Lurie Medical Research Center of NWU 303 E. Superior St., Chicago, IL (map) Chicago Skeptics have been cordially invited to join in the...
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13/09/2012 – Conference Call: Pseudoscience- and religion-based laws in Illinois
Thursday, September 13, 2012 2:00 PM To 3:00 PM Call (530) 881-1400 Participant Access Code: 978895, Chicago, IL No, we’re not in Louisiana where tax dollars pay for students to be taught that the...
View ArticleSkepticamp 2014 Speakers: Chris Long
Chris is an optimist who cheerfully overestimates the abilities and positive intentions of others. She works as an IT Director and believes that good management is a noble goal. She lives in the...
View ArticleSkepticamp 2014 Speakers: Mike Jarsulic
Mike is a computer scientist at The University of Chicago specializing in High Performance Computing and scientific programming. Although he has been a skeptic for most of his life, the...
View ArticleSkepticamp 2014 Speakers: Ivan Phillips
“I believe that, with the right framing, we can build a much more rational society in the space of a generation. This is why I am passionate about education in rational thinking, and why I co-founded...
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Skepticamp 2014 Speakers: Faisal Saeed Al-Mutar
Unfortunately, we found out at the last minute that Faisal can’t guarantee he’ll be able to make it to Skepticamp this year. Faisal Saeed Al Mutar is an Iraqi born writer, public speaker, web designer...
View ArticleSkepticamp 2014 Speakers: Dan Price
Dan Price is an IT ninja by day and amateur philosopher, artist, game designer, and general explorer of whatever is interesting and shiny all the time. Dan loves to discuss, argue, debate, pontificate,...
View ArticleSkeptical Salon – The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy
Thursday, March 27, 2014 7:30 PM Location: Jennifer’s Place I know what you’re thinking and don’t worry. You have our assurance that no one will be forced to listen to Vogon poetry during this Salon....
View ArticleSkepticamp 2014 Speakers: Louise Kellar
Louise Kellar is a resident Hoosier who spends a lot of time trying to prove there’s more than corn and creationism is the heartland. The uphill battle has lead her to be an aspiring aficionado of...
View ArticleCosmos-Watching “Party”
Sundays through June 2nd 8:00 PM Location: Bartoli’s Pizza, Addison and Damen Monica says: I found a place – a small, neighborhood pizza place, called Bartoli’s – that has agreed to show Cosmos on...
View ArticleThere is a WAITLIST for Skepticamp!
Holy foo, everyone! We’re full up! Skepticamp is going to FILL the Irish American Heritage Center full to bursting next weekend! (or at least to the official capacity of the space.) And there are still...
View Article? > ! : How Curiosity Leads to Skepticism (and a Better Life)
Saturday, May 17, 2014 12:30 PM Location: Black Rock Properly applied, curiosity inevitably leads to skepticism. Jeff will explain how through a lecture and then with objects on his Curiosity Table...
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