Hello Skepticontown! We here at Skepticon HQ are HUGE fans of the Ada Initiative, a non-profit that supports women working in tech and open source internetty stuff. The lovely people at Ada would like to come give an ally skills training workshop at Skepticon, but they need some dollars to Read more…
Hello Skepticontownville! The Skepticon team comes bearing great news–Cards Against Humanity has graciously donated a whole crapload of their games to us, so we’re hosting a CAH game night on Friday from 10pm–Midnight! Prizes will be Skepticon swag, and of course copies of Cards Against Humanity (including all of the Read more…
” Stellar!” You know, like stars and stuff! Get it!? Cause you know who likes stars a WHOLE LOT?!? Dr. Nicole Gugliucci. She’s an astronomer, writer, educator, skeptic, self proclaimed “maker-of-tiny-comets”, and an all around geek. Nicole has made it her mission to study and share the universe, which makes Read more…
We and our minions have been working hard here at the Skepticon 7 secret moon base to put together this year’s schedule of talks. And guess what! It’s now available! You can check it out on our schedule page or you can head over to our page on Lanyrd where you can see Read more…
The first winners of our t-shirt giveaway extravaganza have been drawn: Jashin Lin and Karley Johnston… come on down and claim your prize! Please contact us via Facebook or email us at info@skepticon with your shirt size and shipping address! Everyone else is probably super duper jealous! “How do I Read more…
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The secret we mentioned last week is revealed as (drumroll please…….!) a COSMIC ART SHOW!!!!!! In addition to jewelry and speech-craft at Skepticon 7, “Surly” Amy Davis Roth is organizing the FIRST EVER Planetary Science Art Show, which promises to be SUPER DUPER AMAZING for us artsy & sciency loving Read more…
Come one, come all, to the speaker spotlight on Dr. David Gorski! The good doctor is a breast cancer surgeon and researcher at Wayne State University in real life. He also serves as the managing editor of the popular blog, Science-Based Medicine where he and his co-bloggers, whose numbers include founder Read more…
…if you want to get your free lanyard and badge! As always, our event is free, so every one of you that registers before October 17 will receive their lanyard and SK7 badge when you check in at the event. Register here! While the event is always free to every Read more…
It’s no new news among the Skepticon Community, but JT Eberhard is kind of a big deal these days. We were half tempted to not even worry about doing a speaker spotlight for him, but we didn’t want him to think we don’t love him with all our dark, black Read more…