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Sip Salon - Why Do We Believe Things We Can't Prove?

Monday, July 6, 2026 6:00-8:00 PM

Honest Friend Brewing

Why do we believe things we can't prove? Faith, intuition, gut feelings, conspiracy theories, and scientific consensus all ask us to believe things we haven't personally verified. What's the difference between reasonable trust and blind faith and how do we know which one we're doing?

Welcome to the Sip Salon where we gather to learn together through articles and discussion. Read the article, join the discussion. Just curious folks coming together to discuss topics. Whether you know a little or a lot, we hope to grow together in our understandings. With drinks.

Why do we believe things we can't prove — and how do we decide who to trust when we can't verify the facts ourselves? This month's Sip Salon explores two surprisingly connected ideas: that our brains may be hardwired to find meaning, detect patterns, and seek out belief whether the evidence is there or not and that the real crisis of our information age isn't our inability to tell true from false, but our inability to tell who is even genuinely trying to tell the truth. Drawing on two short, engaging articles one from psychology and neuroscience, one from philosophy and media we'll dig into the fuzzy line between reasonable trust and blind faith, between honest mistakes and deliberate deception, and what any of this means for how we navigate a world full of things we'll never be able to personally verify. Just curious people, a willingness to question some assumptions, and a drink in hand.

The Siposium - Beyond the Echo Chamber: How to talk with someone you think is completely wrong

Sunday, July 12, 2026 7:00-9:00 PM

Seventh Son Brewing

We're bad at talking to people we disagree with — and this month, Dr. Aaron Yarmel is going to fix that.

Ever wish your favorite NPR segment or Ted Talk came with trivia, drinks, and real conversation? Welcome to The Siposium, a live, interactive gathering where we deep dive into surprisingly niche topics with expert guests, thoughtful dialogue, and just enough irreverence to keep it fun. Think NPR-style curiosity, casual community vibes, and real-time interaction. With drinks.

This month, we know how to debate to win, and we know how to ghost, but our current culture rarely gives us the tools to actually talk across a deep divide. When faced with profound disagreement about life's biggest questions or society's most controversial topics, we easily fall into intellectual traps that shut real discussion down, such as dogmatism, moral relativism, or total nihilism. This month, we're unpacking a powerful alternative over a beer called Inquiry Dialogue. Distinct from both adversarial debate and purely supportive storytelling spaces, Inquiry Dialogue is a rigorous, truth-seeking practice. It is an actively transformational process where we learn and evolve by thinking deeply in community with others. Drawing on his years of experience facilitating discussions with everyone from kindergartners to medical professionals, Dr. Aaron Yarmel will show how this collaborative, disciplined framework can transform hostile arguments into meaningful exchanges.

Speaker Bio: Dr. Aaron Yarmel is the Director of the Philosophy For & With Children Academy at The Ohio State University, where he is also the Associate Director of the Center for Ethics and Human Values and a Physicians Coach, specializing in Philosophical Counseling, at The James Comprehensive Cancer Center. Aaron's research and practice revolve around dialogue facilitation, philosophy for children, AI ethics, and two-level utilitarianism. He is a Fellow and an Endorsed Practitioner of the Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children (IAPC) and the Founding Director of Philosophy Counseling and Consulting. Aaron holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an MSc in Philosophy of Science from the London School of Economics, and a Bachelor of Music in violin performance from the Eastman School of Music.

Sip Salon - Why Does Music Do That to Us?

Tuesday, August 25, 2026 6:00-8:00 PM

Location: Hammond Harkins Art Galleries

BYOB

You have a song. You know the one. It comes on and something just happens, a memory surfaces, your body wants to move, your eyes fill up, or you're suddenly somewhere you haven't been in years. You probably assume it's the music doing that.

Turns out it's considerably stranger than that.

Welcome to the Sip Salon where we gather to learn together through articles and discussion. Read the article, join the discussion. Just curious folks coming together to discuss topics. Whether you know a little or a lot, we hope to grow together in our understandings. With drinks.

Research now shows that our experience of music has surprisingly little to do with the notes themselves. In one study, people rated a piano performance as more expressive and emotional based on the performer's body language, even when the audio didn't match. In another, the world's greatest violinist played in a Washington D.C. subway station for 35 minutes and almost nobody stopped. People have rated the exact same recording as higher quality when told it was played by a professional rather than a student. We hear music not just with our ears but with our eyes, our bodies, our memories, our expectations, and the entire cultural world we grew up inside.

And when it comes to musical taste? A massive Cambridge study of 350,000 people across 50 countries claims your personality predicts what you listen to. One music critic, who has spent her career in the industry, says that's completely wrong, and makes a pretty compelling case.

This month's Sip Salon takes on the hidden psychology and neuroscience of music: why it moves us the way it does, what our taste actually reveals about us, and whether two people listening to the same song are ever really having the same experience at all.

Come with your opinions, your favorite inexplicable song, and a drink in hand. No musical expertise required, just ears and curiosity.

The Siposium - Beyond Bob: Exploring the History, Sound & Soul of Reggae

Tuesday, August 18, 2026 7:00-9:00 PM

Columbus Brewing Company Beer Hall

You know Bob Marley. But do you know reggae?

Most people's introduction to the genre begins and ends with one name, and while Bob Marley is undeniably its greatest ambassador, reggae is a world unto itself that stretches far beyond him. Its roots run deep into Jamaican history, its branches spread wide into ska, rocksteady, dub, and dancehall, and its influence quietly shaped genres across the globe that most people wouldn't immediately connect to a Kingston studio in the 1960s.

This Siposium, we're going beyond Bob. Expect the full story: the cultural and historical forces that gave birth to reggae, the producers and players who shaped its sound, the subgenres most people have never explored, the musical elements that make it distinct, and a curated playlist to take home and actually listen to.

Whether you're a lifelong fan or someone who only knows the greatest hits, you'll leave hearing reggae, and a lot of other music, differently.

Bio: Originally from the Toledo, OH area, Joe didn't like reggae the first time he heard it because he couldn't make sense of it. When he was 19, he went to his first live reggae show, the epiphany hit him, and he hasn't looked back. After 32 years and counting of playing reggae with bands throughout Ohio and immersion in the style, he's developed deep knowledge of the lore, history, players, culture, and more, especially classic roots and culture reggae, dub, rocksteady, ska, and more. His playing experience, which continues today, has included The Ark Band, Groovemaster, Seefari, Dougie Simpson and the Faith Band, Roots Society, Demolition Crew, 6 Degrees of Dub, All Star Jammerz, and more.