Event Listing
Weird World of the Very Very Small – Dr Steve Barrett
How do we describe the world on a scale of atoms and molecules? The concepts underlying quantum mechanics seem to be at odds with common sense, but quantum theory describes reality on the atomic scale.
This event will be online, on the Skeptics in the Pub Twitch channel.
August Social
Casual social. Chats about movies, books, podcasts, food, etc, as well as skeptical topics.
Rethinking sex, brain and gender: Beyond the binary – Dr Daphna Joel
Are the brains of women and men the same or different? Or maybe it’s the wrong question? Does the binary division extend beyond the genitalia into the human brain and mind? And why do we care? Dr Daphna Joel invites you to look at the science of gender, sex and the brain, and how freeing ourselves from the gender binary can help us all reach our full human potential.
This event will be online, on the Skeptics in the Pub Twitch channel.
Growing Up Human: The Evolution of Childhood – Brenna Hassett
Brenna Hassett explores how evolutionary history has shaped a weird and wonderful phenomenon that everyone on the planet experiences – childhood.
This event will be online, on the Skeptics in the Pub Twitch channel.
Demolishing Babel — Keith Kahn-Harris
Could not understanding languages can actually be a tool for peace-making? Can we better appreciate the wonder and joy of language without the pressure to understand? And how can the warning message in a Kinder Surprise Egg be the starting point for a linguistic adventure? In this talk, Dr Keith Kahn-Harris will take the adventure through and beyond his latest book, and invite the audience to join him on it.
Bottles, boobs & bunkum: busting common infant feeding myths – Dr Erin Williams
Will breastfeeding save the planet? Are parents being hoodwinked by Big Formula? Join us on an infant feeding journey to determine fact from fiction around feeding our wee ones.
This event will be online, on the Skeptics in the Pub Twitch channel.
June Social
Casual chatting, chilling, mingling. Topics will probably veer from Skeptical and science, to things like movies and humorous current affairs.
The Sunny Sides and Dark Sides of Being a Skeptic – Claire Klingenberg
Using Paranormal Phenomena to Explain the Workings of Science.
This event will be online, on the Skeptics in the Pub Twitch channel.
Paine: Being a Fantastical Visual Biography of the Vilified Enlightenment Hero, by his Ardent Admirer, ‘Polyp’
Born to an ordinary working class family in Norfolk, Paine was variously a corset maker, a privateer, a hugely influential figure in the War of Independence, an exile, a prisoner, and a resolute atheist. His writings celebrate logic, science and enlightenment values, but also deliver a piercing attack on religious fundamentalism.
Failure & Redemption: How Science Saves Science – Dr Megan Crawford
Efforts in science have brought about some of the most disastrous, shocking, and even hilarious results. But how do we know!? Because… SCIENCE! Megan Crawford, PhD, will show how it’s possible that the very system responsible for humanity’s biggest failures, is still the best system for exposing these very conundrums.
This event will be online, on the Skeptics in the Pub Twitch channel.