Event Listing
AGM and Social: Skeptics In The Church (Inn)
We have mixed the dates up massively this month just to keep everyone on their toes! Our Social is now on 9/10/14 from 7.30pm at the Church Inn.
We are also holding our AGM from 6.30pm at the same pub, open to all who are members on our Meetup page. We will be electing officers and tabling a constitution for discussion. If you would like to get more involved in GMSS then this is the ideal meeting for you.
The Church Inn claims the following: good grub, strong coffee, reasonably-priced ale, a proper beer garden and lively, informed conversation. We think claims like that should be properly tested... sometimes repeatedly.
There's a 10% student discount on food, extended to all SITP attendees.
Social: Skeptics In The Church (Inn)
Good grub, strong coffee, reasonably-priced ale, a real fire, and lively, informed conversation. If that sounds like your scene then get yourself along to our monthly social.
There's a 10% student discount on food, extended to all SITP attendees.Social: Skeptics In The Church (Inn)
Good grub, strong coffee, reasonably-priced ale, a real fire, and lively, informed conversation. If that sounds like your scene then get yourself along to our monthly social.
There's a 10% student discount on food, extended to all SITP attendees.Social: Skeptics In The Church (Inn)
Good grub, strong coffee, reasonably-priced ale, a real fire, and lively, informed conversation. If that sounds like your scene then get yourself along to our monthly social.
There's a 10% student discount on food, extended to all SITP attendees.Lifting The Lid: Ongoing adventures in the world of pseudoscience
It’s easy to think of pseudoscience existing in a glass case at a museum – something to be examined and critiqued from a safe distance, but not something to touch and to play with. Using examples taken from his own personal experiences in skepticism, Michael Marshall will show what happens when you begin to crack the surface of the pseudosciences that surround us – revealing the surprising, sometimes-shocking and often-comic adventures that lie beneath.
Michael Marshall is the Vice President of the Merseyside Skeptics Society and Project Director of the Good Thinking Society. He regularly speaks with proponents of pseudoscience for the Be Reasonable podcast. His work with the MSS has seen him organising international homeopathy protests and co-founding the popular QED conference. He has written for the Guardian, The Times and New Statesman.
Social: Skeptics In The Church (Inn)
Good grub, strong coffee, reasonably-priced ale, a real fire, and lively, informed conversation. If that sounds like your scene then get yourself along to our monthly social.
There's a 10% student discount on food, extended to all SITP attendees.The Simpsons and their Mathematical Secrets
Simon Singh, author of Fermat's Last Theorem and Big Bang, talks about his latest book, which explores mathematical themes hidden in The Simpsons. Everyone knows that The Simpsons is the most successful show in television history, but very few people realise that its team of mathematically gifted writers have used the show to explore everything from calculus to geometry, from pi to game theory, and from infinitesimals to infinity. Singh will also discuss how writers of Futurama have similarly made it their missions to smuggle deep mathematical ideas into the series.
IMPORTANT NOTE: observant skeptics (that is skeptics who attend religiously) will have noticed this event is on a Wednesday evening rather than our usual Thursdays. We'll also be starting as close to 7pm as we can to enable Simon to get the last train!
Social: Skeptics In The Church (Inn)
Good grub, strong coffee, reasonably-priced ale, a real fire, and lively, informed conversation. If that sounds like your scene then get yourself along to our monthly social.
There's a 10% student discount on food, extended to all SITP attendees.What do faith healers Roman gladiators and anal probes have in common?
The answer is, they all take centre stage in the Roman Medicine Roadshow, a public education workshop organised by Merseyside-based non-profit organisation, Big Heritage:
Developed by a team of archaeologists and funded by the Wellcome Trust; this project explores medicine in the Roman world, and examines how human remains and archaeological discoveries can tell us more about the practicalities and ethics of medicine in the past. Exploring the past also helps shed light upon the logic of modern-day faith healing and sacred temples by viewing them through 2nd century eyes.
This talk will be given by archaeologists from Big Heritage, and will consist of a light-hearted lecture followed by an opportunity to handle a range of Roman medical tools and casts of human remains from Roman Britain displaying a range of diseases and impact traumas.
Social: Skeptics In The Church (Inn)
Good grub, strong coffee, reasonably-priced ale, a real fire, and lively, informed conversation. If that sounds like your scene then get yourself along to our monthly social.
There's a 10% student discount on food, extended to all SITP attendees.