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Life Talks: Creating Conversations
Instructor: Peggy Jennings-Severe
Dates: 11/2/2022 - 11/16/2022
Days: W
Times: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Sessions: 3
Location: The Social Chico
Fee: Included
CANCELLED

Skeptic's Guide to the Universe
Instructor: Gary Hedlind
Dates: 9/13/2022 - 10/11/2022
Days: Tu
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Sessions: 5
Location: The Social Chico
Room: Bradley 1
Fee: Included

The class covers core concepts that every skeptic should know: Mechanisms of deception, memory fallibility, fallibility of perception, metacognition issues, science versus pseudoscience, and skepticism and the media. We will suggest tools useful for helping us recognize our own biases and cognitive barriers to rational assessment.

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This class counts toward the 3-class limit.

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