{"id":5213,"date":"2013-01-18T08:01:03","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T13:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theness.com\/neurologicablog\/?p=5213"},"modified":"2013-01-18T08:01:03","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T13:01:03","slug":"necss-2013-and-darwin-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theness.com\/neurologicablog\/necss-2013-and-darwin-day\/","title":{"rendered":"NECSS 2013 and Darwin Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

NECSS 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n

The first national skeptical conference of the season is NECSS 2013<\/a> (The Northeast Conference on Science and Skepticism), hosted by the New York City Skeptics and the New England Skeptical Society. The conference will be held in New York City on April 5-7.<\/p>\n

We have a great lineup of speakers this year. The keynote is physicist Leonard Mlodinow<\/a>, author of\u00a0The Drunkard\u2019s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives.\u00a0<\/em>In addition we have Simon Singh, Michael Shermer,\u00a0Mariette DiChristina (editor of Scientific American) and many other great speakers<\/a>. As always there will be live performances of the Skeptics Guide to the Universe podcast and Rationally Speaking podcast.<\/p>\n

We are also running a number of workshops<\/a> on the Friday of the conference. I will be running one with George Hrab on using podcasting and other social media to promote your cause (or just for fun).<\/p>\n

Readers of Neurologica can receive a 10% discount by registering with the following code – NECSS2013 (I know, real tricky).<\/p>\n

If you do come be sure to come up to me at the SGU table and introduce yourself.<\/p>\n

Darwin Day<\/strong><\/p>\n

For the last five years Darwin Day has been an international celebration of science and humanity. There are many local events held on or around February 12th (Darwin’s birthday) – you can probably find one in your area.<\/p>\n

I live in CT, and there will be a Darwin Day celebration here. There will be a dinner on Saturday Feb 9th starting at 6pm, at the Continental Manor in Norwalk.\u00a0(See\u00a0http:\/\/darwindayct.org\/<\/a>\u00a0for more details and to register.)<\/p>\n

If there are no Darwin Day events in your area – then perhaps you are just the right person to organize one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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