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Category Archives: Past Events

We’ve done a wide variety of things including everything from hanging out with visiting celebrities in bars to book clubs, movie outings and even planning our own Skepticamp! Listed below are only our most recent event. Over 100 more past events are available at our Meetup.com page.

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First Meetup of the New Year!

Posted on January 3, 2015 by Beth

Saturday, January 17, 2015 12:30 PM Location: Black Rock As a member of our Meetup group, you know that we like to ask new members if they’re alarmed by the state of scientific knowledge among the general population in America. Well, … Continue reading →

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Chicago Skeptics’ Annual Festivus Party

Posted on November 25, 2014 by Beth

Saturday, December 20, 2014 7:00 PM Location: Union Park Lounge It’s Festivus for the rest of us! There will be appetizers, an aluminum pole, and of course, the mandatory airing of grievances. Come for the holiday spirit, stay for the [mental] … Continue reading →

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Skeptical Salon Movie Night - Marjoe (Skeptics’ Choice)

Posted on November 1, 2014 by Beth

Thursday, November 20, 2014 7:30 PM Location: Jennifer’s Place Come join your fellow Skeptics at the last Salon of the year! We’ll be watching Marjoe, the “ferocious and extraordinary chronicle of a firebrand evangelical preacher who wholeheartedly and humorously exposes himself as … Continue reading →

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Do You Believe In Magic? (Spoiler Alert: Yes You Do)

Posted on October 25, 2014 by Beth

Saturday, November 15, 2014 12:30 PM Location: Black Rock Come see how your senses don’t always give you an accurate reading on reality, and witness how the difference between what you *think* is happening & what is *really* happening. Jonny Zavant … Continue reading →

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Skeptical Salon: Mother Nature Is Trying To Kill You by Dan Riskin

Posted on September 27, 2014 by Beth

Thursday October 30, 2014 7:30 PM Location: Jennifer’s Place From Amazon (and just in time for Halloween): “As host of Animal Planet’s grotesque but paradoxically popular show about parasites, The Monsters Inside Me, Riskin has endured his share of unsavory encounters with Mother … Continue reading →

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OF INTEREST: Marian Call Performs At FermiLab!

Posted on September 20, 2014 by Beth

Friday, October 3, 2014 7:30 PM Location: Fermilab Users’ Center Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory welcomes back Marian Call! Fermilab is just outside of Chicago. Please use the East Gate Entrance and tell the guard that you are headed to a concert … Continue reading →

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OF INTEREST: Visit St. Louis’ City Museum [FIELD TRIP YAY!]

Posted on September 6, 2014 by Beth

The College of Curiosity is taking a trip down to St. Louis to visit the City Museum on September 27, let’s go! the Conference of Curiosity was held there in 2012, and it was AWESOME. This trip is just to visit the … Continue reading →

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Skeptical Salon - Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen

Posted on September 1, 2014 by Beth

Thursday, September 25, 2014 7:30 PM Location: Jennifer’s Place “History is furious debate informed by evidence and reason, not just answers to be learned.” James Loewen spent two years at the Smithsonian Institute surveying twelve leading high school textbooks of American … Continue reading →

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A Critical Look at the Future (No Flying Cars)

Posted on August 30, 2014 by Beth

Saturday, September 20, 2014 12:30 PM Location: Black Rock Dr. Molumby takes a critical, hard look at the future of humanity and the forces that brought us here. Dr. Alan Molumby is an associate professor of Biology at the University of … Continue reading →

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Skeptical Salon - You Are Now Less Dumb by David McRaney

Posted on August 4, 2014 by Beth

Thursday, August 28, 2014 7:30 PM Location: Jennifer’s Place “Self delusion makes you human, but you can do something about it. Delusion, that is. You’re stuck with the human thing.” David McRaney’s first book, You Are Not So Smart, evolved … Continue reading →

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