SKEPTICONERS! It’s officially November! Are you ready for the full throttle amazeballsness of Skepticon 9? We’ve put together this entirely serious and very important checklist of things you should remember to bring to the con: Registered (Only those who register are guaranteed a lanyard and badge!) Place to Crash Way to Read more…
Hello Skepticoners! Due to a scheduling mix-up, we have to make a change to this year’s speaker schedule.: Rebecca Watson will now be speaking on Saturday at 11am Dr. Margee Kerr will now be speaking at 7pm on Friday Thank you all and we’ll see you soon! Love, Skepticon P.S.–Did Read more…
Hello Skepticonites! Skepticon is so excited (and maybe only a little bit nervous in a good way) to be bringing back panels this year! Let’s see who will be gracing the stage and making it awesome: Polyamory Panelists: Heina Dadabhoy, Joshua Hyde, Nola Olsen, and Benny Vimes with Moderator Stephanie Zvan! Read more…
Hello Skepticontownville, Skepticon 9 t-shirt pre-sales end this Friday, October 7th, 2016. If you want to guarantee that you get a beautiful #Sk9 shirt in the size and style you want (and I should mention that due to funding issues this year, we won’t be able to have as many Read more…
Skepticoners! Tomorrow, we’ll be doing our video game marathon to raise money for this year’s con. Here’s a message from poor sap, er, video gamer Jason who has volunteered his time: Okay. So. Here’s the deal. I’m playing Megaman for twelve straight hours. The original NES series first, then 7 Read more…
Team Skepticon interrupts your regularly scheduled blogs to bring you this message: On Sunday, September 25th, tune in to THIS! VERY! WEBSITE! Via the magic of the intertubes, join Jason Thibeault as he live-streams a Megaman Marathon to raise funds for everyone’s favorite free skeptical conference… uh, what was it Read more…
Hello Skepticonverse! We have the Skepticon 9 Schedule ready for you to see! You can view the schedule on our Laynrd page here! This year, Team Skepticon is happy to announce that we will have not one, but TWO PANELS! That’s right, we’re bringing them back like they’re the Terminator Read more…
That’s right! While Skepticon may look like a giant fancy pantsy conglomeration, we’re actually entirely run by a small team of volunteers. People who have lives and families of their own dedicate their free time to making this convention happen. Organizing and running this convention is a labor of love for our Read more…
These are serious times, and serious times call for a bunch of silly dinosaurs. Our silly dinosaurs are the finest available, and we love them. This message has been brought to you by the Skepticon Team–if you like what you see, please consider donating!
When you step outside of the lecture caverns at Skepticon, you will find many other things going on. First, you will notice our lovely hallway tables where vendors will equip you with all the books and videos and shirts and pins and bumper stickers and doodads and gizmos that you Read more…