{"id":25708,"date":"2010-07-04T09:55:12","date_gmt":"2010-07-04T09:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/07\/04\/update-on-the-skepchick-track\/"},"modified":"2010-07-04T09:55:12","modified_gmt":"2010-07-04T09:55:12","slug":"update-on-the-skepchick-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/04\/update-on-the-skepchick-track\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on the Skepchick Track"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the last day of SkepchiCON, a skeptic and science track at the Convergence Convention, which in turn is one of those science fiction and fantasy conventions.  I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/quichemoraine.com\/2010\/06\/i-will-be-at-the-con\/\">attended a number of panels<\/a> most of which I participated in, and they have all done well.  For the most part, I&#8217;m told, the Skepchicon tracks get a larger audience than many other events, suggesting that we-all are doing something right.  <a href=\"http:\/\/skepchick.org\/blog\/author\/carr2d2\/\">Skepchick Car2D2<\/a> deserves a huge round of applause for her awesome efforts in organizing this event.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had a great time visiting with friends and colleagues from in town and out of town, gawking at interesting costumes, and having excellent conversations. Yesterday, while sitting on one of the panels, I was able to point to Commander  Willian Riker (sitting five rows back) and say to him, in reference to the person in the front row, &#8220;Number one &#8230; did you hear the Klingon in the front just say that &#8216;human beings are doomed?'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(A guy in a Klingon suit had so lamented in relation to overall human stupidity.)<\/p>\n<p>In a couple of hours, PZ Myers and I will run a panel by ourselves (I think &#8230; perhaps someone has been added one never knows) on &#8220;New discoveries in evolution.&#8221;  Overall, the theme of the panels I&#8217;ve been on seems to have been how to figure out good from bad information about evolution and science in general.  I think we may end up discussing that in part as we discuss recent evolutionary items of interest.<\/p>\n<p>Two interesting metaphors emerged during the ongoing conversation that will form the seeds of a couple of blog posts &#8230; if you remind me to talk about them.  Just ask me about the Big Monkey and the Rain Forest Bouquet.  It will all make sense later when I explain.<\/p>\n<p>OK, now it is time to get some coffee and head back down to Bloomington where I will rub elbows with star troopers, zombies and furries.  Live long and prosper.  Nanu nanu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the last day of SkepchiCON, a skeptic and science track at the Convergence Convention, which in turn is one of those science fiction and fantasy conventions. I&#8217;ve attended a number of panels most of which I participated in, and they have all done well. For the most part, I&#8217;m told, the Skepchicon tracks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/04\/update-on-the-skepchick-track\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Update on the Skepchick Track<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6GE","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25708"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}