• TORONTO: Science and Philosophy Book Club – Consciousness Explained, by Daniel Dennett

    Scallywag's 11 St Clair Ave, Toronto, ontario, Canada
    Join guest host, Heider Alward for a discussion on Daniel Dennett’s Consciousness Explained. Consciousness Explained is a book from 1991 by the American philosopher Daniel Dennett which offers an account of how consciousness arises from interaction of physical and cognitive processes in the brain. This book can be read with genuine pleasure by a non-philosopher;...
  • Okanagan – Kids for Inquiry: Chemist

    Kelowna Art Gallery 1315 Water Street, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada
    Chemistry is the driving force inside batteries and they can be made out of a variety of different ingredients. At this KFI gathering, the kids will be making batteries out of pennies! We will have plenty of pennies, but if you have any pennies lying around, please do bring them along and put them to...
  • Okanagan – Kids for Inquiry: Chiller

    917 Purcell Drive, Kelowna 917 Purcell Drive, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada
    Dr Janice Snyder, professor of psychology at UBC-Okanagan, will give a presentation on the science of attention and focus. (If you haven’t already done so, don’t tell your kids about the gorilla in the basketball game!) She will then lead the kids in a guided meditation, practising the art of attention, as well as relaxation....
  • Skeptics in the MacPub

    Fionn MacCool's 1875 Regent Street, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
    The Centre For Inquiry Sudbury invites you to join your fellow freethinkers for a pint of Barking Squirrel or your favourite libation of choice at Fionn MacCool’s in the Sudbury’s South End. We will be meeting every third Sunday of the month starting in April.  
    Free