Oh, look. A brand new godless conference, Freethought Festival 2012, to be held in Madison, Wisconsin on 27-29 April. And it’s free. You’re all going to go, right?
And don’t forget, there’s another free conference here in the upper midwest: The Midwest Science of Origins Conference, next week on the 30th, right here in Morris, Minnesota.
You’ve got no excuses.
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Rise up. We can do better. But first we have to stand against superstitious nonsense.
It’s on! Students here at UMM got together and have organized their very own Midwest Science of Origins Conference, to be held in Morris on 30 March-1 April. As the big name speaker, they’ve got Neil Shubin to tell us all about Tiktaalik, and some other regional folk to talk about physics, biology, anthropology, and philosophy…and also Chris Stedmaaaaaan (you can tell right away that this isn’t a case of me dictating to them what to do — this is entirely student-organized and run). Come on out and learn!
What, you say, you can’t come all the way out to itty-bitty Morris on the edge of nowhere? Then send your money, instead. The conference is free, but they are looking for donations to cover costs.
For every hundred dollars donated, I promise to growl angrily at Stedman. See? That’s how he can contribute to freethought!
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Time is whipping by, I can tell — Darwin Day is next week! I’m going to have to whip up a talk for this event real soon, I think: it’s Darwin on the Palouse, and I’ll be talking at Washington State University in Pullman, WA a week from Thursday. They’ve paired me up with Dan Dennett that evening…which is daunting, since I know which of us people will be lining up to see. On Friday, it’ll be Jen McCreight and Fred Edwords speaking, so even more competition.
It should be a couple of good evenings of diverse and interesting talks, so all you folk in Eastern Washington and Idaho should make the trip.
Oh, and if you can’t make the February event, you could always drive a bit farther north in May and take another shot at me at Imagine No Religion 2, in Kamloops, BC. There I’ll only be standing in the shadow of Lawrence Krauss and a half dozen other luminaries.
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The 2012 Global Atheist Convention is gearing up and putting tickets on sale right now, so it’s time for you to start planning. Get your tickets now!
I’ve been told to remind you to sign up for CSICon: The conference dedicated to science and reason — it’s coming up on 27-30 October, so it’s time to commit. It has an amazing list of speakers — so amazing, that even though I’m one of them, they left me off as the least interesting person speaking there. That just tells you how good it is, or perhaps what good taste the organizers have.
Also, who cares who the speakers are? It’s in New Orleans. I’m going for the food and the music and the chance to sashay through the French Quarter late at night with a beautiful woman on my arm, as God intended me to do. As my humanity and my manhood demand that I do.
