Drinking Skeptically ABQ #9!

Hey friends, Drinking Skeptically ABQ is tonight!  Now that Lost is over, you have no excuse to miss another meeting.  We’ll be meeting at the usual place, at the usual time, so come on out with yer thinkin’ caps on!

And speaking of caps… you see that DS cap logo to the left there?  Wouldn’t it be cool to have a fancy, pretty one, just for our Albuquerque group?  Yes it would, and since I don’t have even the most basic design sense, I thought I would throw it out to you kind folks.  So, anyone with a little spare time and a little Photoshop skill care to whip up a DSABQ logo?  Maybe something with a Zia on it?  I don’t know.  Yellow?  I don’t know.  It’s up to you.  You’re the fancy pants here.

Super awesome DSABQ logos can be submitted through our Facebook group, but if you’re not Facebook inclined, just send us a message through the Duke City Skeptics site, and we’ll get back to you with our email.

See you all tonight!

-Josh

The Many Sightings of Ben Radford

If you missed Benjamin Radford’s presentation back in March of “Behind the Scenes of a TV Ghost Show” (hosted by our friends over at NMSR), you missed a genuinely fascinating skeptical look at “reality” tv.

But if you DID miss it, you had another opportunity to hear some excellent stories at the last Drinking Skeptically meeting, when Ben joined us for a night of rational discussion, ghost stories, and even the slip into terribly inappropriate jokes. But that’s okay, because it was Drinking Skeptically, and what happens at Drinking Skeptically, STAYS at Drinking Skeptically… or something. In any case, it was a fun night. We had a handful of first-timers show up, which caused our largest turn out yet, and I dare say some of the more interesting conversations we’ve had.

All in all, the night went long, we downed a good number of Fosters oil cans (which somehow seems to have become the semi-official drink of DSABQ), and we all left having broken no bar ware at all. What more can you ask for?

Okay, but maybe you missed that one too. Don’t fret, because the next Drinking Skeptically meeting is a mere two and a half weeks away, on the 25th.

In the meantime, you might be interested to find out a little bit more about this Radford fellow. For those who don’t know, Ben is the managing editor of Skeptical Inquirer magazine, as well as a paranormal investigator, board game inventor, and writer. It seems you can find his writings just about everywhere right now, from his “Bad Science” column, to articles appearing anywhere from The Christian Science Monitor to our very own Weekly Alibi. He’s also written several books, his newest book, coming out very soon, is called Scientific Paranormal Investigation. You also may know him as the guy who debunked the Santa Fe courthouse ghost, and the Kimo ghost.