{"id":9791,"date":"2011-05-11T16:11:11","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T16:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/05\/11\/an-interesting-conversation-in\/"},"modified":"2011-05-11T16:11:11","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T16:11:11","slug":"an-interesting-conversation-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/11\/an-interesting-conversation-in\/","title":{"rendered":"An interesting conversation in the offing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did I use &#8216;offing&#8217; correctly?  Strange word.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, <a href=\"http:\/\/tuibguy.com\/\">Mike Haubrich<\/a> has pulled off another coup at <a href=\"http:\/\/mnatheists.org\/\">Atheist Talk Radio<\/a>.  He has arranged for a conversation to happen, live, between <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skeptic.com\/i-am-a-skeptic\/Desiree-Schell.html\">Desiree Schell<\/a> and yours truly.  This will be in early June (details forthcoming).  We&#8217;ll be talking about <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/05\/a_multiplicity_of_strategy_is.php\">multiple strategies for effecting change<\/a>, especially with reference to things like skeptical (in a good way) thinking, science, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>This is very timely because we are quickly approaching <a href=\"http:\/\/skepchick.org\/2011\/03\/join-us-at-skepchickcon-2011-and-help-humanists-in-kenya\/\">SkepchiCON<\/a> (click <a href=\"http:\/\/events.skepchick.org\/\">here<\/a> to donate), at which this will be one of the topics discussed in the track organized by the <a href=\"http:\/\/events.skepchick.org\/\">Skepchicks<\/a>.  In fact, Desiree is one of the participants in that track this year, as is PZ Myers, a bunch of other people, and me.  Watch this spot for more details on that as well.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, the latest posts on this topic are:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tribalscientist.wordpress.com\/2011\/05\/05\/the-two-species-problem-of-new-atheism\/\"><br \/>\nThe two species problem of New Atheism<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/almostdiamonds.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/accommodationism-challenges.html\"><br \/>\nThe Accommodationism Challenges<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/skepchick.org\/2011\/05\/what-do-you-do-when-the-person-next-to-you-on-the-plane-is-reading-deepak-chopra\/\">What do you do when the person next to you on the plane is reading Deepak Chopra?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/05\/a_multiplicity_of_strategy_is.php\">&#8230; And earlier posts are linked to here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did I use &#8216;offing&#8217; correctly? Strange word. Anyway, Mike Haubrich has pulled off another coup at Atheist Talk Radio. He has arranged for a conversation to happen, live, between Desiree Schell and yours truly. This will be in early June (details forthcoming). We&#8217;ll be talking about multiple strategies for effecting change, especially with reference to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/11\/an-interesting-conversation-in\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An interesting conversation in the offing<\/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\/p5fhV1-2xV","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9791"}],"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=9791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}