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8 June – SkepTalk
17 June – Hangin’ Out with Leonard Tramiel
28 June – Virtual Skeptics in the Pub

SkepTalk – Online

WHAT: Improbable Research and the Ig Nobel Prizes
The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that make people LAUGH, then THINK. Ten new prizes have been awarded every year since 1991. The magazine Annals of Improbable Research organizes the Ig Nobel ceremony, which is held at Harvard University.

WHO: Marc Abrahams is the co-founder and editor of the magazine Annals of Improbable Research (AIR), and the author of This is Improbable, The Ig Nobel Prizes and other books. He edits and writes much of the website and blog www.improbable.com and the monthly newsletter mini-AIR. He also writes the weekly “Feedback” column in New Scientist. Before all of this, he was editor of the Journal of Improbable Results, and before THAT, a software engineer and before THAT, an applied mathematics graduate of Harvard, where he was a year behind Bill Gates. Unlike Gates, he finished college, although his software company was somewhat less successful.

WHEN: Thursday 8 June @ 7:30PM Pacific (0230 UTC)

WHERE: Online. Click HERE to join.

Hangin’ Out with Leonard Tramiel

Leonard Tramiel

WHAT: Hangin’ Out Live with Leonard Tramiel at the Computer History Museum!

WHO: You & Leonard Tramiel.
Bay Area Skeptics member Leonard Tramiel is the perfect person to take us through Mountain View’s Computer History Museum, having himself been a pioneer in the computer and video game industries. His father Jack Tramiel was legendary as founder of Commodore (remember the Commodore 64?). Leonard was part of the team that developed Commodore’s first computer, the PET. After earning a Ph.D. in physics from Columbia, he went on to become a VP at Atari, where he worked on both computers and video games. Several of the machines he worked on are on display at the museum. Join us for a day of fun and history with someone who himself made personal computer and video game history.

WHEN: Saturday June 17 @ 11 AM

WHERE: Computer History Museum, 1401 Shoreline Blvd, Mountain View

Museum Admission: $17

Virtual Skeptics in the Pub

WHAT: Virtual Skeptics in the Pub

This is a casual night of socializing with fellow skeptics. If needed, we will have a number of breakout rooms for quieter conversations.

Please join us! This is a free event brought to you by Bay Area Skeptics. All are welcome, but please be respectful of others.

WHEN: Wednesday 28 June 7-9pm PST (0200-0400 UTC Thurs)

HOW: Zoom. Join HERE. Passcode: 1023

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