I was on this panel at SkepTech! You can read my prepared thoughts here. Notes: -I improperly conflated psuedonymity with anonymity in the last third of the talk. Those are different things. I think pseudonymity (like Gravatar, Disqus, etc. offer) is one of the nice middle ground ways we can keep an eye on commenters …
Category Archive: Travel
Feb 21 2013
Kate’s Travels and Other People’s Writing
I’m traveling a great deal in the coming months. With respect to conferences, this is where I’ll be. Please comment if we’ll overlap! Skepticamp Chicago – Website Where: Fifth Province Pub at the Irish American Heritage Center Address: 4626 North Knox Avenue, Chicago, IL When: March 2nd, 11am-6pm I’ll be talking about Myths & Misinformation in Mental …
Jun 18 2012
Plan 9 from Seattle
As some of you know, and many undoubtedly do not, I was in my first play ever last March, a stage version of the Ed Wood epic Plan 9 from Outer Space. Well, I went to the museum in Seattle and discovered an actual UFO from the actual movie. And I saw lots of musical …
Jun 16 2012
Seattle Anti-Caturday: BABY CUTTLEFISH
I just went to the aquarium and there were baby cuttlefish!!! PZ bait…
Jun 13 2012
My Life is Exploding & Boba Fett Ukulele
First and foremost, go give the SSA money. They are the best, they deserve at least five of your earth dollars. The timing of my getting a blog here is not totally ideal — I’ve had to abandon my house and move in with my mother because I’m allergic to it, I have to be …
Sep 03 2011
Going Back to School & Dragon*Con: I’m Speaking Monday at 1PM
And you can watch! Here. I’ve had a craaaaazy couple of weeks here. The bizarre tale. I’ve been thinking about going back to school for a while – I browsed through different PhDs online for film or creative writing and I looked at law school, but the first two seemed impractical and as I didn’t …
Jul 19 2011
TAM Sunday: I give a presentation to a zillion people
I got up early to get ready to see the papers, and to make sure I was there to watch everyone else’s papers because they usually aren’t crowded. TAMmers leave in droves on Sunday before the event is over and the papers were really poorly advertised this year. There was no program, there was no …
Jul 19 2011
TAM Saturday
I got up early on Saturday and headed to the Del Mar bar to meet Ginger Campbell, super awesome brain and ER doctor, to watch the 3rd place World Cup match between Sweden and France. I didn’t stay for the whole thing, but Sweden ended up winning. I missed a panel about paranormal investigation and …
Jul 16 2011
TAM Friday
First up this morning was a marginal breakfast. I don’t understand this — why do people put cooked fruit into things that don’t need cooked fruit. Cooked fruit is not chocolate. It does not make things better. It makes them measurably much worse. Croissants don’t need jelly on the inside. It’s gross. George Hrab opened …
Jul 15 2011
TAM 9 Thursday
So, yesterday I arrived in Las Vegas. It was hot, but actually less hot than it was in Columbia, SC for the last few days. I then immediately got some Baja Fresh, because brown salsa is amazing. Then iw went to the hotel. I ended up hanging out with Heidi Anderson in the speakers rooms …
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Kate Donovan
Ashley's co-blogger is a third year student at Northwestern University who runs on coffee and snark. . At some point, she'd like to make people sit on couches and tell her about their feelings, but right now she writes in different places around the internet and makes silly faces when she doesn't know what to say. She's the president of her local Secular Student Alliance affiliate, and she is on the Secular Woman speakers bureau. Opinions do not necessarily reflect those of the Secular Student Alliance
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