Skepticon is officially taking a controversial stance on typhoons: typhoons are bad. Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) is beyond awful. You can help in two big ways at Skepticon. This Friday at 1PM, Dale McGowan, founder of Foundation Beyond Belief is skyping in to Skepticon’s main stage to talk about the typhoon Read more…
There will be a blood drive at Skepticon on Friday Nov. 15 from 1-5 PM. For this new project, the Community Blood Center of the Ozarks is bringing a truckload of beds and a small army of volunteers. Let’s dazzle them and make them wish they brought another truck! Get Read more…
When you check in, you will be given a colored armband and an important mission: Win. It’s the ultimate showdown of Red Team vs Team Blue and it could decide everything. Help your team win points to achieve victory and get the TOTALLY AWESOME PRIZE!* How do you get in Read more…
Hey Skepticoners! We here at Skepticon HQ are super pumped to announce our travel grant recipients! First up, the winner of the SurlyAmy Grant for Awesome Women who are Awesome: Miri Mogilevsky! “To be honest, the skeptical/secular community saved my life. When I first got involved a little over a year Read more…
Friends! Skeptics! Activists! We are pleased to announce that this year we will be sharing the Expo Center with Friends Against Hunger again! Friends Against Hunger is the group that we shared the Expo Center with last year and their goal is to pack 1 million meals in a three-day Read more…
Rob Lehr of Hambone Productions has made a donation, on behalf of Skepticon and the atheist community, from the advertising revenue generated from the speaker videos to the Mtaani Centre, an HIV testing facility, in Nairobi, Kenya. The money donated will not only fund the entirety of the center’s expenses Read more…