Our new website is now live. Hopefully, it’s now easier to find all of our projects and resources. Sit tight for the next couple of days as we iron out any kinks, and please contact Jen if you run into any problems or have any suggestions for improvement.
Planning for SkeptiCamp Ohio 2010 is officially underway! A new website is forthcoming, but in the meantime you can see last year’s event information at SkeptiCamp Ohio. Join our SkeptiCamp Ohio Google Group for planning discussion and notices of new meetings.
The Columbus Coalition of Reason – an association of reason-based groups in central Ohio, including CORI – unveiled a new billboard supporting the secular community in downtown Columbus. More details at the Columbus CoR website.
CORI’s letter to the editor in response to Dr. Phillip DeMio appears in today’s Dispatch.
The article was edited, which I expected, and the three references I sited were left out. Here is the original version:
This morning I got my wonderfully delicious breakfast , and a bottle of water. But this was no ordinary bottle of water – no – but energy water!
The water is Avitae, a caffeinated brand of water. It’s increasingly more and more advertised around Columbus, and being the caffeine addict I am, I thought I’d give it a shot. I chugged it down, in hopes of getting my boost for the day.
And the results?
I work retail. A lot. So much that it is probably counterproductive to my education. I’ve worked in it on and off though for at least 4 years, but in that short time, it’s been both enjoyable and agitating.
One of the more agitating aspects of it happened about a couple weeks ago. I had a conversation with a customer that went something like this:
Over the past week or so, many skeptics online have probably seen the Telegraph UK’s report on the new film Creation, which is a biographical account of Charles Darwin’s life and, specifically, his crisis of faith. The claim made by the Telegraph report, sourced from comments by the film’s producer, is that the film has no US distribution because of mainstream America’s religiously-based aversion to Darwin. Now, maybe it’s just because I’m a resolute film snob and know way too much useless information about the film industry – but I didn’t buy that as the real reason. And so I looked into it.
For those of you who have not noticed, there’s a new skeptical podcast in town. A couple other CORI members and I have launched CORICast, and you can get it at http://ohioskeptic.com/podcast, or subscribe via your favorite MP3 player at http://feeds2.feedburner.com/coricast. Please give us your feedback on CORICast either at the webste or email us at coricast@gmail.com. You can also follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/coricast.
Talk with you later!
-David.
*This is a post from a new blog made by Jeni, Kim C, and me. Please wander over and check us out at negativentropy.*
My husband and I packed up the kids a couple weeks ago and went to the Ohio State Fair. My favorite part of the fair–aside from the fried food and rides–is the marketplace building. They sell all sorts of wacky things, and I love walking up and down the aisles seeing all the weird stuff. This year I saw something particularly weird: a booth selling Ionic Foot Detox Baths.
In case you missed it, some of PZ Myers’s talk from the Secular Student Alliance Conference.