Earl Scruggs dies on Wednesday.

Ruh Roh.

Marie-Claire Shanahan is going t be interviewing David Dobbs about his book, Reef Madness: Charles Darwin, Alexander Agassiz, and the Meaning of Coral on Skeptically Speaking.

So, that would be one of my favorite people interviewing one of my favorite authors about one of my favorite books which is, in turn, about one of my favorite topics, on my absolutely favorite radio show/pod cast which is usually run and operated by one of my favorite people. Holy crap!

As you know, I interviewed David about this book on Bloggingheads a while back.

The interview will be on April 1st, Sunday at 6:00PM Mountain Time, and will be a podcast available on Friday of the same week. You can be part of the “live audience” on Sunday, and join the chat room. I’ll see you there!

All the details can be found here.

Coming to a place near you in June.

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Adrienne Rich died at the age of 82 in Santa Cruz, California. Member of the New Left, Poet, Feminist, author of Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution and more.

Get your copy here.

What are we looking at here? Your answer will depend on the angle with which you approach the problem.

hat tip: Sarah Moglia.

I will be interviewing Maggie Koerth-Baker this Sunda, April 1st, no fooling.

Maggie Koerth-Baker is the author of the new book, “Before the Lights Go Out: Conquering the Energy Crisis Before It Conquers Us”. Maggie is the science editor and a regular writer at Boing Boing, and hails from the Twin Cities. She was once described as “A lighthouse of reason in a churling ocean of stupidity,” which is exactly why we all need to read her book and listen to her interview Sunday, April 1st on Minnesota Atheists Talk Radio.

From the publisher’s review of “Before the Lights Go Out”:

“Hi, I’m the United States and I’m an oil-oholic.”

We have an energy problem. And everybody knows it, even if we can’t all agree on what, specifically, the problem is. Rising costs, changing climate, peaking oil, foreign oil, public safety–if the fears are this complicated, then the solutions are bound to be even more confusing. Maggie Koerth-Baker… makes sense out of the madness. Over the next 20 years, we’ll be forced to cut 20 quadrillion BTU worth of fossil fuels from our energy budget, by wasting less and investing in alternatives.

To make it work, we’ll need to radically change the energy systems that have shaped our lives for 100 years. And the result will be neither business-as-usual, nor a hippie utopia. Koerth-Baker explains what we can do, what we can’t do, and why “The Solution” is really a lot of solutions working together…

Please call in or email with questions, listen to the interview live, or pick up the podcast which is usually available later in the day.

The interview is April 1, Sunday, no fooling, 9:00AM Central. We don’t know yet if we’ll be gathering for a post show brunch at Q-Cumbers, but you can watch this space, or listen to the show live, to find out.

Listen to AM 950 KTNF on Sunday, April 1st, at 9 a.m. Central to hear Atheists Talk, produced by Minnesota Atheists. Stream live online. Call in to the studio: 952-946-6205, or send an e-mail to radio@mnatheists.org during the live show.

Just wanted to let you know that Matt Soniak, science writer, was interviewed on Skeptically Speaking last Sunday, March 25th, and a cleaned up version of the interview will be released on Saturday as a podcast . Matt was talking about Predators and Prey.

And, on the podcast there will be a pre-recorded conversation with Desiree Schell and me on “Man the Hunter” (more or less), a new installment of “Everything you know is sort of wrong.”

Details here.

Matt Soniak, science writer, was on Skeptically Speaking last Sunday; the podcast will come out on Saturday. Matt was talking about Predators and Prey.

And, on the podcast there will be a pre-recorded conversation with Desiree Schell and me on “Man the Hunter” (more or less), a new installment of “Everything you know is sort of wrong.”

Details here.

This is the second time this–airline employee freaking about 911 and/or Iran–has happened in recent days, the first time being with a flight attendant.

As mentioned in that report, JetBlue lost another flight attendant in August, 2010 for apparently different reasons:

Only in Boston would you find a Helocoptah.

Please enter your best stab and conspiracy riddled explanation for these events below.

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I’m still reading Drift. It’s been hard to get the time with all this conventioneering I’m doing, but I’m loving it.

See also this preliminary look at the book.

Faking it? He’s a fake? Do tell!

More details, context, here.