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By Zack Dumont Healthcare and medical literature is fraught with limitations: It’s complex, vulnerable to various interpretations, and ultimately not well served by fleeting headlines. To effectively translate the knowledge…
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Jason gave an excellent talk on the ways statistics are presented in the media can deceive and how to use critical thinking skills to see through the deception.
It seems impossible, given how long humans have been studying the skies, but last October 19, a Canadian astrophysicist at the University of Hawaii observed the first confirmed interstellar object to travel through our solar system. The object is called ‘Oumuamua (the apostrophe is not a typo).
During Ottawa’s Skepticamp 2019, Seanna Watson and Hilary Brown both volunteered to run a KFI. Much fun was had by all building ‘squishy circuits’. Kudos to both! [Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”3″ gal_title=”KFI…
Photos from April 13, 2019 Skepticamp held in Ottawa [Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”2″ gal_title=”Ottawa Skepticamp April 13, 2019″]