It’s this weekend! And look, more women are attending! I am so looking forward to Women in Secularism: not only is it a sign of progress that atheism can broaden its reach, but it’s a meeting where I don’t have to give a talk, and so nothing is hanging over my head and I can …
Category Archive: Conferences
May 09 2013
Who is joining me in Romania?
May 01 2013
Horde meetup at Women in Secularism
An event has been planned for Sunday, May 19, 2013 at 1:00 PM, somewhere in Washington DC. We’re not telling you where, because this is exclusively for the elite, the cream of the crop, the best of the best, good people by invitation only. If you’re interested, you’re going to have to contact the Guardian …
Apr 30 2013
We don’t know everything, but we know enough
Sean Carroll explains the sufficiency of physics. Magic disproven with Feynman diagrams! Wait, I saw this talk at Skepticon, and I think it was close to an hour long. They’ve edited down to 10 minutes? And it still makes sense? This bodes ill. I fear they’re going to take my talks now and distill them …
Apr 30 2013
End-of-term madness descends
The next few days are going to be horrible. Today, I’ve got Cafe Scientifique (6pm, Common Cup Coffeehouse in Morris), in which I’m giving a talk on junk DNA. In addition, though, I’m also scrambling to get a lot of grading done — I’ve got to be all caught up before we roll into finals …
Apr 28 2013
Pre-emptive announcement
I’m going to be at Women in Secularism in a few weeks, which I expect to be great. However, certain nuisances are talking about approaching the people they’ve been harassing online for years, and trying to harass them in real life, getting them to be grist for their podcast mill. Ophelia has made a clear …
Apr 26 2013
A weekend in Romania
The IHEU General Assembly is taking place in Bucharest the weekend of 26th May, and I’ll be going. I have to think about what I’m going to talk about… Hmmm…here’s some inspiration. In Romania the theory of evolution was taken out from the biology classes for several years, and it was reintroduced only as a …
Apr 24 2013
If only I were a little more unscrupulous (or gullible) …I’d go to CMBF
I would love to visit China. I’d especially love to be invited to go there and have all my expenses covered. So when I got an official-looking invitation to a conference there a while back, I had a few milliseconds of enthusiasm, until I read a little deeper and my excitement got replaced with bafflement. …
Apr 22 2013
Empowering Women Through Secularism
Apr 21 2013
A patriotic way to spend the 4th of July this year
Battle the British invasion! Come to Bloomington, Minnesota for CONvergence on 4-7 July! Both Freethoughtblogs and Skepchick have an official presence at this con — we’re not only promoting and attending a science and skepticism track in the programming, but we also host party rooms for wild conversations after hours. Take a look at the …








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