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 …
Category Archive: Conferences
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
The poster alone should convince you to go (Hi, Taslima!). See you in Dublin, 29-30 June!
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 …
Apr 19 2013
Rebecca Watson gives advice to conference speakers
It’s good advice, too, although I think she’s channeling her mother in the last bit, so maybe this should be titled “Rebecca Watson’s Mom gives advice…” She’s suggesting that speakers should use their influence to increase diversity. I’m all for this, even if my possession of a pair of testicles carrying sperm of Northern European …
Apr 15 2013
Fleeing Minnesota for California, briefly
It’s been miserably slushy and cold out here in Minnesota, hardly any spring at all — I have serious concerns that my incoming shipment of fertilized chicken eggs for my development course may not survive the journey. We may still be below freezing up to the last week of the semester! So it’s good news …
Apr 14 2013
Robin Ince vs. Brendan O’Neill
At #QEDcon (which sounds like a marvelous conference from the enthusiastic tweets resounding everywhere) there was a panel discussion yesterday that I’m looking forward to seeing appear on youtube. Brendan O’Neill, professional conservative ass, put his opening remarks, “Is science becoming a new religion?” online. It’s a bizarre tirade — it cusses out this new-fangled …
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