Dr Stephen Law, CFI provost and Editorial Advisory Board (EAB) member for The Skeptic Magazine (UK) has announced the first two London events for CFI UK’s New Year programme.
Scheduled for January 30th 2010, the first event will involve fellow EAB members Dr Simon Singh and Andy Lewis, joining Prof. John Garrow in a critical discussion of alternative medicine. The second event, scheduled for 6th March 2010 returns to the theme of the unexplained, with former Ministry of Defence project head Nick Pope speaking about UFOs, Adrian Shine speaking about the Loch Ness monster, and Paul Vella speaking about his work as Britain’s leading expert on Sasquatch.
Full details are available from the CFI UK website (http://www.cfiuk.org) and from The Skeptic Magazine’s events pages (http://skeptic.org.uk/events)
CFI UK has also kindly extended free invitations for both events to Skeptic Magazine (UK) and New Humanist subscribers, Friends of CFI UK, GHLA, SPES, and BHA members. Booking in advance is recommended, however.
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Today saw the March edition of Leeds Skeptics in the Pub. Norm had decided to pull out last week so Daryl bravely stepped up at the last minute to present his talk. There were quite a few new faces down there which was good to see, hopefully the word is starting to spread.
Daryl’s talk was amazing, it was about the power of exponentials and the technological singularity which obviously was of great interest to me as a computer scientist. It was interesting because we also carried out usual hat of skeptism but nobody could really pick any major wholes in the latest thoughts outlined by Ray Kurzweil in his book “the singularity is near.”
In the book he outlines that the technological singularity is both achievable and near given that technological growth is exponential. It really is a facinating area and one that I will be keeping a much closer eye on in future.
Dr Stephen Law has just finalised the details of an event on 17 January 2009 that may be of interest. Full details can be found on the new CFI London web site (www.cfilondon.org).
Weird Science Day: A CFI London event (in conjunction with South Place Ethical Society)
Saturday, 17th January 2009. 10.45am-4pm
Venue:
Conway Hall
25 Red Lion Square
London
WC1R 4RL
11am-12am
Prof. RICHARD WISEMAN
Investigating the impossible: A skeptical approach
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The next School for Gifted Children. It’s at The Albany at great Portland Street , London at 8pm on 29th October. It will include Ben Goldacre of Bad Science, (Para-)psychologist Chris French, biographer and music type Andrew Collins on why he likes the Mitford sisters despite two of them being Nazis, Rich Sandling probably on forgotten VHS rentals, Wil Hodgson on nostalgia culture, Jo Neary in many guises, and Robin Ince probably questioning existence or something like that (plus a couple of others).
To book tickets call on 020 7387 5706.
The Albany 240 Great Portland Street W1 5QU (Great Portland St tube)
Tickets Go On Sale on Monday 13th October @ 9am
Buy from Ticket Zone
Buy from Ticketmaster
Doors – 6:30 PM
Tickets – £25-£30
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Mark | Thursday, 14 January, 2010
