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Today, October 8, 2011, and tomorrow, I am attending Geek Girl Con, in Seattle. I will be live blogging the event all weekend. Myself and two friends kicked of the weekend with a visit to the AFK tavern, but I will write about that later. At this moment, I am sitting in JBL theatre watching Continue reading Geek Girl Con The Amaz!ng Meeting doesn’t officially start until tomorrow with the opening slate of workshops, but skeptics and critical thinkers have already descended en masse in Vegas. This afternoon I attended the volunteer luncheon at the hotel buffet. No, I didn’t crash it, I’m volunteering as a ticket taker for several hours tomorrow. There was an air Continue reading Amaz!ng Sights at the TAM Pre-Show
This week I’ll be attending The Amaz!ng Meeting 9 (TAM9) in Las Vegas, Nevada, along with many of my SheThought co-writers. TAM9 is the annual conference of The James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) that brings together skeptics and critical thinkers for several days of talks, panels and myriad activities. Each year Continue reading SheThought Happens in Vegas
Today is the fifth of May date of the quite famous Mexican celebration of the Cinco de Mayo. I think that, at this point, many Americans are aware that Cinco de Mayo is actually not the Mexican day of independence (that falls on September 16th) but it might Continue reading Feliz Cinco de Mayo a todos! If you can spare a dollar, a few bucks, whatever, please help out this really fantastic cause! It’s so good, I’m doing a 5K for it. And I hate running… (Cross-posted on NoisyAstronomer.com) So, this all started when one of my fellow grad students came into my office yesterday saying, “Hey! There is free ice cream Continue reading Urgent! You can help Kids with Autism Deb wrote a delightful post about the solstice and lunar eclipse earlier this week at Science@Home. Check it out here! The first introduction I had to the notion of a ‘Thanksgiving’ holiday was via an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Nothing like having a faux-British faux-Vampire sum up his views on the holiday as: Spike : You won. All right? You came in and you killed them and you Continue reading On Thanksgiving – From A Non-American I call it spelunking, when I fire up a program, generate a fractal and start exploring all the different parts of it that I can find. It is an adventure. The appeal is in the challenge of discovery, in making sense of what I have found and, in the process, finding something beautiful. There is Continue reading Almost Immortal – Mandelbrot On October 9th, 2010, I went down the rabbit hole. I went to a Mutual UFO Network conference. The Setup First, I’ll admit something that I haven’t talked about all that much. I once believed that aliens were visiting Earth and that there was a government cover-up. I wasn’t always so skeptical. I was, and still Continue reading Beam Me Down the Rabbit Hole Sponsored by Central New York Skeptics Time: Wednesday, September 15th, 7:00 PM, Free and open to the public Location: Dewitt Community Library, Large Meeting Room, ShoppingTown Mall, 3649 Erie Blvd. East, DeWitt NY 13214 Contact Lisa Goodlin, 315-446-3068, for more information. Presentation summary: Kitty Mervine will give an overview of how the modern alien/UFO experience came Continue reading “A Close Encounter with Kitty Mervine” |
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