{"id":14393,"date":"2010-04-08T22:30:46","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T22:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/norcal-skeptic-conference-april-24-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2010-04-08T22:30:46","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T22:30:46","slug":"norcal-skeptic-conference-april-24-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/norcal-skeptic-conference-april-24-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"NorCal skeptic conference April 24 | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There will be a skeptic convention in northern California (specifically Berkeley) on April 24. Called <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.skepticalcon.org\/\">Skeptical<\/a>, it&rsquo;s being run by the Bay Area Skeptics and the Sacramento Area Skeptics, both great groups of folks. I wish I could go; <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.skepticalcon.org\/speakers\">speakers include<\/a> Genie Scott, Kiki Sanford, Brian Dunning, Karen Stollznow, Seth Shostak &mdash; all friends and wonderful lecturers &mdash; and I hate to miss something like this. <\/p><p>But you should go! It&rsquo;s a one day event, and the cost is only $40. Not bad. That would only buy you like one minute on the phone with Sylvia Browne, or 0.0007 bomb-sniffing wands, or a Deepak Chopra book &mdash; all of which are worth far, far less. <\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.skepticalcon.org\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/dd7d5_skepticalcon.jpg\" alt=\"skepticalcon\" width=\"550\" height=\"135\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13606\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/3sk1lW6dK2p6D3Fy16WraR9uzsc\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/dd7d5_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/3sk1lW6dK2p6D3Fy16WraR9uzsc\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/0f3b5_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/0f3b5_l72Lrp2wBwE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/0f3b5_L7KXghiG3UY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There will be a skeptic convention in northern California (specifically Berkeley) on April 24. Called Skeptical, it&rsquo;s being run by the Bay Area Skeptics and the Sacramento Area Skeptics, both great groups of folks. I wish I could go; speakers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/norcal-skeptic-conference-april-24-bad-astronomy.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14393"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}