{"id":34108,"date":"2011-04-17T15:43:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-17T15:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/necss-of-death-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2011-04-17T15:43:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-17T15:43:00","slug":"necss-of-death-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/necss-of-death-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"NECSS of DEATH! | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend I was in NYC attending the Northeast Conference on Science and Skepticism, aka <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.necsscon.org\/\">NECSS<\/a>. It was a lot of fun, as I kinda figured it would be. Skeptic conferences usually are! And of course it was a chance to catch up with a lot of old friends. <\/p><p>Attendees are writing their opinions of the meeting all over the place (like <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/madartlab.com\/2011\/04\/13\/necss-in-review-part-i\/\">here<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/idoubtit.wordpress.com\/2011\/04\/13\/necss2011\/\">here<\/a>, and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/silencedbyageofautism.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/necss-of-thought-and-reality.html\">here<\/a> for starters). I&rsquo;ll spare you the recap, which would boil down to how awesome my talk was, and cut to the chase which is to thank Michael Feldman from <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/nycskeptics.org\/\">the New York City Skeptics<\/a>, and all the folks from <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theness.com\/\">the New England Skeptical Society<\/a> for inviting me and throwing such a fab conference.<\/p><p>I&rsquo;d be remiss, though, if I didn&rsquo;t include this little bit of funnery. Skeptical singer songwriter and BA friend <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.geologicpodcast.com\/\">George Hrab<\/a> was at NECSS. On Geo&rsquo;s last album, \"Trebuchet\", he wrote a tune called \"Death from the Skies\" &mdash; based on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Death-Skies-These-Ways-World\/dp\/0670019976\/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1220913560&amp;sr=8-8\/badastronomy\">the brilliant book<\/a> of the same name. He plays the funky beat, and I read statistics of getting killed by various astronomical events. We performed this song ...<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Y5EG3KHjKC-GmWEnHmDGDU8lLeQ\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/7b202_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Y5EG3KHjKC-GmWEnHmDGDU8lLeQ\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/7b202_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\/7b202_tw9OcTpsvXs\" 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\/7b202_3wS_EZ6g-Q4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend I was in NYC attending the Northeast Conference on Science and Skepticism, aka NECSS. It was a lot of fun, as I kinda figured it would be. Skeptic conferences usually are! And of course it was a chance &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/necss-of-death-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-34108","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\/34108"}],"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=34108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}