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Drinking skeptically is an informal event designed to promote fellowship and networking among skeptics, critical-thinkers, and like-minded individuals.
Drinking Skeptically provides an opportunity for skeptics to talk, share ideas (and yes, drink) in a casual, relaxed atmosphere. We discuss the issues of the day and whatever else is on our minds. But most of all, we have fun while promoting skepticism, science, and rationality.
Don't drink? Don't let that stop you from joining us! Some of the world's most famous skeptics are teetotallers and we are happy to have you!
Visiting New York from out of town? Stop on by! Skeptics are a friendly bunch and there's always room for one more...
Drinking Skeptically meets at 8PM at the Four-Faced Liar, a "downtown Irish" pub located in the heart of Greenwich Village in New York City (165 West 4th St., between Sixth and Seventh Avenues).
Remember that drinking skeptically means drinking responsibly. If there's one thing science has taught us, it's the effects of alcohol on the human body.
New York City Skeptics is proud to co-sponsor Michael Shermer's lecture "The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics" at the New York Academy of Sciences.
Author and psychologist Michael Shermer will lecture and host a book-signing reception for his latest book, The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics, at the New York Academy of Sciences as part of the Science & the City Author Series.
In this eye-opening exploration, Dr. Shermer uncovers the evolutionary roots of our economic behavior. How did we make the leap from ancient hunter-gatherers to modern consumers and traders? Why do people get so emotional and irrational about bottom line financial and business decisions? Is the capitalist marketplace a sort of Darwinian organism that evolved through natural selection?
Michael Shermer is the author of nine previous books, including the bestselling Why People Believe Weird Things. He is a columnist for Scientific American, the publisher of Skeptic magazine, and the founder and director of the International Skeptics Society.
Where:
The New York Academy of Sciences
7 World Trade Center
250 Greenwich St, 40th Fl
New York, NY 10007-2157
When:
January 09, 2008
6:00PM -7:30PM
NYAS Members: $10
Student Non-Members: $15
Non-Members: $25
RSVP is requried. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.nyas.org/authors.
All proceeds go the New York Academy of Science "Science and the City" author series.
We skeptics get all smug when we argue with someone over issues we believe are established science.
That's usually safe when it comes to astrology. But then there is homeopathy, wait, that's safe too.
But what about acupuncture? And of course there's climate change, but by statute we are not allowed to go there.
How do we determine whether something is established science?
Bring your own topic that the skeptic community considers to be established science and convince us that it's not the case.
We are back at our regular meetup place for January, hope to see you all there.
Malibu Diner
163 West 23rd Street in Chelsea
New York , NY 10011
Location
General Society of Mechanics & Tradesmen, 20 W. 44th St.
The 2008 annual Thomas Paine Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Harvey J. Kaye, author of Thomas Paine and the Promise of America (Hill and Wang) and Rosenberg Professor of Social Change and Development at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. Dr. Kaye, one of the most distinguished Paine scholars in the nation, will speak on Paine and America's Unfinished Revolution: The Struggle for Democracy Continues. What would Thomas Paine think about the restrictions on American civil liberties in the wake of 9/11? We'll talk about this and many other topics as relevant today as they were at the time of the American Revolution.
Register via CFI's website at:
http://www.centerforinquiry.net/nyc/events/voices_of_reason_jan_2008/
