Posts Tagged ‘society’

Edmonton Skeptics

I’ve very excited that over the course of the summer our little effort to convene a collective of local skeptics has resulted in lots of new interest, a couple meetings, and some upcoming community education projects. It looks like things are taking off. If you are finding this page because of a search for Edmonton Skeptical groups, or groups in and around Alberta, look us up on either Facebook or (for the time) Meetup.com and come out to a meeting.

As a dad to a little girl who is really starting to build up those cognitive functions, I’m looking forward to having some great community support in the coming years around critical thinking and skepticism.

Check out our new webpage at www.edmontonskeptics.org

Full text from August 26, 2008 by Brad
Filed as: Community Skeptics, Meta-Skepdad

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lost musings

If you’ve been privy to the six months that comprise the early development of this blog, visiting often, reading diligently, and participating on the fringes of wordsmithery that drapes this domain in some vague recollection of pandering advice, then you have also witnessed a bumbling fool of a new father attempt to compose the impossible. I often have this deep rooted fear that my own cherry-picked musings on the state of critical thought are in jeopardy, caught in the gravity-well of logical fallacy — and it is with straining effort and scattered triumph that I continue to pluck away on this project. As such, we were traveling recently, bumbling through an international jaunt with our little hatchling in tow, and lest not be saved from our typical mid-vacation discovery of some local bookstore, we spent a few hours wandering the foreign stacks and perusing literature from a bevy of random topics.

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Full text from March 25, 2008 by Brad
Filed as: Meta-Skepdad

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Gaming and Critical Thought (Proposal)

In my everyday life I have been finding overlap between fellow skeptics and folks who game. That is to say, the people I know in real life and online who I would consider ‘critical thinkers’ and scientists have a notable affinity for playing complex and unique board games, dice games, or card games. It is not a closed-set of people by any means, but it makes me wonder: What do games teach us about thought? Are games good models for teaching integrity to kids (one of skep/dad’s claimed core pillars of critical thinking) or is it mere correlation? Or what else could we deduce from this seeming connection — if it even exists?

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Full text from January 25, 2008 by Brad
Filed as: Critical Thought Toolkit, The Three Eyes

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Argument for a Local Skeptical Society

I must admit that the efforts of other united groups of skeptics around the world has recently given me the hope for the future of rational thought and the strength to pursue my own efforts at a higher level. I’ve spent a number of years struggling towards a goal that I had previously been unable to name or associate with a particular movement. In the past six months, I’ve stumbled upon and found a kind of kinship with an international skeptical movement and moved from a simple passive participant towards being someone who seeks to be more actively involved.

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Full text from October 25, 2007 by Brad
Filed as: Community Skeptics

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