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Bay Area Skeptics encourage rational thought and critical thinking through the use of scientific methods. We also promote critical thinking and accuracy in the media and in our schools. We are particularly interested in such topics as claims of the paranormal, pseudoscience and untested or poorly tested medical and psychotherapeutic practices.
People in Bay Area Skeptics come from diverse backgrounds and professions and represent all age groups.
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SkepTalk Thursday
·OnlineOnlineIn far-flung parts of the United States, people share similar ghostly tales involving ghosts who wander along railroad tracks in remote areas, searching for the remains of a loved one who perished in a gruesome railroad accident. Enduring lore describes one such ghost in the Charleston, South Carolina, area. These ghost stories are clustered in the Summerville area, where the 1886 Charleston earthquake, estimated magnitude 7, was centered. A consideration of ghostly lore leads to the conclusion that the local Summerville Ghost — along with some of the ghosts in other areas — can be explained by earthquake phenomena including earthquake lights.
Susan Hough Ph.D. is Research Geophysicist with the United States Geological Survey, Pasadena, California field office, a position she has held since 1992. She received an AB degree with honors in geophysics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1982, and a PhD in Earth Sciences from Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 1987. Her research focuses on characterization of earthquakes and earthquake effects, including the triggering of earthquakes by both human activities and other earthquakes, the interplay between earthquakes and culture, and historical earthquakes. She has co-authored over 180 articles in the peer-reviewed literature, and five books for non-specialist readers. She was elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2009. Since 2009 she has led several international capacity-development efforts, including the USGS Earthquake Disaster Assistance Team missions following the 2010 Haiti and 2015 Gorkha, Nepal, earthquakes.
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WHEN: Thursday 9 April 7:30pm Pacific (GMT-7)
HOW: Online HERE.
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BAS - Virtual Skeptics in the Pub
·OnlineOnlineThis is a casual evening of socializing on Zoom with fellow skeptoids and other curious humans from around our oblate spheroidal Earth. Please join us!
This free event is brought to you by the Bay Area Skeptics. All are welcome.
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·OnlineOnlineThis is a casual evening of socializing on Zoom with fellow skeptoids and other curious humans from around our oblate spheroidal Earth. Please join us!
This free event is brought to you by the Bay Area Skeptics. All are welcome.
Attend on Zoom by clicking HERE
Passcode: 10232 attendees
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