{"id":32564,"date":"2011-03-13T15:43:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-13T15:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/reminder-necss-in-april-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2011-03-13T15:43:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-13T15:43:00","slug":"reminder-necss-in-april-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/reminder-necss-in-april-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Reminder: NECSS in April! | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The critical thinking meeting season is about to kick off, and the first big one in the US is NECSS: <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.necsscon.org\/\">The Northeast Conference for Science and Skepticism<\/a>. It&rsquo;s from April 9 &ndash; 10 in New York City, and has a pretty cool list of speakers. I&rsquo;m honored to be giving the keynote address, and there are lots of fun extracurricular activities planned as well. <\/p><p> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.necsscon.org\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/82204_necss_banner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"522\" height=\"260\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26697\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p>Still not convinced? Then listen to the smooth basso of my pal George Hrab in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.necsscon.org\/storage\/media\/NECSS2011_Hrab_Promo.mp3\">this promo he put together for NECSS<\/a>. He&rsquo;ll be there too, and I bet we can convince him to do a song or two from his latest album.<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.necsscon.org\/registration\">Registration is now open<\/a>, and there&rsquo;s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/necss\">an event page on Facebook<\/a> if you&rsquo;re into that sort of thing too.<\/p><p><em>UPDATE: George just let the cat out of the bag on this, too: we&rsquo;ll be doing a live performance of his song \"Death from the Skies!\" Saturday night at the reception. Here&rsquo;s a taste of what you&rsquo;ll get:<\/em><\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/1i1vZWMTBOBBzNC4ogHrN_jnlWA\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/82204_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/1i1vZWMTBOBBzNC4ogHrN_jnlWA\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/82204_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\/82204_CqYVutS_L6E\" 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\/82204_PR3sgZeI_Kw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The critical thinking meeting season is about to kick off, and the first big one in the US is NECSS: The Northeast Conference for Science and Skepticism. It&rsquo;s from April 9 &ndash; 10 in New York City, and has a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/reminder-necss-in-april-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-32564","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\/32564"}],"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=32564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}