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If you’ve heard the black hole scares surrounding the LHC or seen the movie Angels & Demons and wondered if any bit of it had basis in reality, you’re in for a treat.

Shulamit Moed is a post-doc who splits her time between Fermilab (where she measures the production of the charm quark), CERN (where she prepares for the first LHC collisions), and Harvard (where she gives talks in pubs to people like you).

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Webcomic artists, rational thinkers and booze-lovers Jeffrey Rowland (overcompensating.com - wigu.com - topatoco.com - wigu.com) and Jon Rosenberg (goats.com - brains4zombies.com - teamforcealpha.com) join us to discuss gods, pirates, Jesus and making money on the Intertubes.

William Lobdell discusses his memoir, “Losing My Religion: How I Lost My Faith Reporting on Religion in America — and Found Unexpected Peace”. The book has garnered glowing reviews and endorsements from such disparate people as atheist Christopher Hitchens and Skeptics Society founder Michael Shermer, and a variety of well-known Pentecostal and evangelical pastors and Christian talk radio hosts.

A pie fight on Pi day 3/14 at 1:59pm on the Boston Commons. Organized by Rebecca Watson from Skepchick.org and BostonSkeptics.com .

Many pies were harmed in the filming of this fight. Pi remained constant.

Tim Farley runs the web site What’s The Harm? (whatstheharm.net) where he details the injustices caused by belief in superstition and pseudoscience.