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Captain’s log: 58 days and counting. Set your phasers to donate.

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

I asked for help and you gave it.  A lot. I am so usually overwhelmed with the love and support shown by our wonderful community every day, but this day was more overwhelminger than usual. (A big thank you goes out to the SK7 speakers who took the time to Read more

We’re looking at a week before we have to pay for 17 speaker’s round trip flights, and exactly two months before we have to drop about ten grand on the convention center. We had some Word-Press issues with our website last week, and so our previous begging-for-money-post didn’t get a Read more

So, y’all know about SkeptiProm, right? Yep, thatsa gonna be some goooood times. But we here at Skepticon want you to have even MORE FUN. We insist. So we’re having a dino painting contest! See the little pic over there —-> ? Those are the naked dinos. Your job is Read more

As organizers we’ve had to do some pretty crazy things to make Skepticon happen, but our amazing donors have always pulled through in the nick of time! (we love you!!!!) However, while we’ve waited on donations each year, JT had to take out a loan on his car, Lauren shaved Read more

If you’ve ever been in the vendor room area of Skepticon, you know Surly Amy’s sweet Surlyramics. You may NOT know how AMAZING of an artist Amy Davis Roth (A.K.A. Surly Amy) is in the larger scheme of things. We are crazy lucky that this year she’s agreed to present Read more