{"id":712533,"date":"2010-04-08T18:30:46","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T22:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/?p=13605"},"modified":"2010-04-08T18:30:46","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T22:30:46","slug":"norcal-skeptic-conference-april-24-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/712533","title":{"rendered":"NorCal skeptic conference April 24 | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There will be a skeptic convention in northern California (specifically Berkeley) on April 24. Called <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.skepticalcon.org\/\">Skeptical<\/a>, it&#8217;s being run by the Bay Area Skeptics and the Sacramento Area Skeptics, both great groups of folks. I wish I could go; <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.skepticalcon.org\/speakers\">speakers include<\/a> Genie Scott, Kiki Sanford, Brian Dunning, Karen Stollznow, Seth Shostak &#8212; all friends and wonderful lecturers &#8212; and I hate to miss something like this. <\/p>\n<p>But you should go! It&#8217;s a one day event, and the cost is only $40. Not bad. That would only buy you like one minute on the phone with Sylvia Browne, or 0.0007 bomb-sniffing wands, or a Deepak Chopra book &#8212; all of which are worth far, far less. <\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.skepticalcon.org\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/files\/2010\/04\/skepticalcon.jpg?resize=550%2C135\" alt=\"skepticalcon\" title=\"skepticalcon\" width=\"550\" height=\"135\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13606\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/3sk1lW6dK2p6D3Fy16WraR9uzsc\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/3sk1lW6dK2p6D3Fy16WraR9uzsc\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/3sk1lW6dK2p6D3Fy16WraR9uzsc\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/3sk1lW6dK2p6D3Fy16WraR9uzsc\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/BadAstronomyBlog\/~4\/l72Lrp2wBwE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/L7KXghiG3UY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There will be a skeptic convention in northern California (specifically Berkeley) on April 24. Called Skeptical, it&#8217;s being run by the Bay Area Skeptics and the Sacramento Area Skeptics, both great groups of folks. I wish I could go; speakers include Genie Scott, Kiki Sanford, Brian Dunning, Karen Stollznow, Seth Shostak &#8212; all friends and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-712533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Zmt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}