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20 October: North Bay Skeptics, Online
23 – 25 October: Skepticon 2020, Online
25 October: East Bay Skeptics, Berkeley
28 October: Skeptics in the Pub, Millbrae
5 November: Café Inquiry, Menlo Park
6 November: Skeptics in the Pub, Sunnyvale
12 November: SkepTalk, Online

North Bay Skeptics: Online

What: Join the North Bay Skeptics celebrating the scientific method while discussing current topics and consuming non-homeopathic liquids.

When: 7PM Tuesday 20 October

Where: Online

Skepticon 2020: Online

What: Australian Skeptics Annual Convention
It is a festival exploring science, reason, and critical thinking. The lineup of speakers covers medicine, space, reproducibility crisis, climate, human evolution, and science and skepticism, not to mention some of the best local and international podcasters and science communicators. Details HERE.

When: October 23 – 25

Where: Online

How: Registration details HERE. (Early bird prices until September 24)

Skeptics in the Pub: Millbrae

East Bay Skeptics Dinner: Berkeley

POSTPONED
WHAT: Meet for dinner and discussion. Sometimes there is a topic and sometimes there is just open discussion of whatever is on people’s minds. Ordering dinner starts at 6pm, discussion starts after eating is finished.

WHEN: 6PM Sunday 24 October

WHERE: Barney’s Gourmet Hamburgers, 1600 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley [Map]

HOW: Hosted by the East Bay Skeptics.

POSTPONED

Join lads & lassies from hill & dale
discussing pseudoscience & science
over good eats & ale.
WHEN: 7PM Wednesday 28 October (4th Wednesday)

WHERE: Fiddlers Green, 333 El Camino Real, Millbrae. A 10 minute stroll from the Millbrae BART & Caltrain station. [Map]

HOW: Hosted by the Bay Area Skeptics and Center for Inquiry, SF.

Café Inquiry: Menlo Park

POSTPONED
WHAT: A great gathering of nerds!

WHEN: 6PM Thursday 5 November

WHERE: Café Barrone, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park. A 2-minute walk from Menlo Park Caltrain. [Map]

HOW: Hosted by Center for Inquiry, SF and Bay Area Skeptics.

Skeptics in the Pub: Sunnyvale

WHAT: Upholding the tradition of skeptics groups: good free-flowing discussions with food and ale.

WHEN: 7PM Friday 6 November

WHERE: Firehouse Grill, 111 S. Murphy Avenue, Sunnyvale [Map]

HOW: Brought to you by the Silicon Valley Skeptics.

SkepTalk: Online

Don Lincoln, Ph.D.

WHAT: The Debate about Dark Matter: Is the Matter Settled?
The observable universe is made of stars and galaxies and gas. However, it is commonly held in the astronomy community that our universe is also made of an invisible substance called dark matter that is five times more common than ordinary matter. However, dark matter has never been observed, and the evidence for its existence is still circumstantial. In this talk, physicist Don Lincoln will give insights into the debate within the scientific community. You will learn about the historical debate, the reasons dark matter is a currently favored theory, and an appreciation for why researchers continue to look into the question.

WHO: Don Lincoln, Ph.D.
Don Lincoln is a Senior Scientist at Fermilab, America’s leading particle physics laboratory. His was a member of the teams that discovered the top quark in 1995 and the Higgs boson in 2012.

Lincoln is also an avid popularizer of science. He has written several books for the public, most recently The Large Hadron Collider. He also writes for many online venues, like CNN, Scientific American, and many others. He appears frequently on the Fermilab YouTube channel and he has made several video courses available through The Great Courses company.

He is a recipient of the 2013 Outreach Prize from the European Physical Society and the 2017 Gemant Award from the American Institute of Physics. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

WHEN: 7:30PM Thursday 12 November

WHERE: Online. Click HERE

HOW: This event is presented FREE by the Bay Area Skeptics.

WHY: Because we’re curious creatures.

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