tam speakers

With embarassment I read the e-mail that announced the presence of Michael Mann at TAM 2013. Regardless of your position in the scientific debate about climate change, Mann's behaviour with regard to the infamous "hockey stick" has not met skeptic standards. To understand why what he did was...

They are having a reddit AMA right now (with way too many questions from the public to keep track of anything) http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/ybmmh/we_are_engineers_and_scientists_on_the_mars/ I would like to find out whom to direct this request, and to add to it that if members DO come...

TAM4 will be my first TAM, and my knowledge of these events is shakey. That said, it struck me as a really cool idea to invite sci-fi authors to speak at TAM. Obviously Asimov was sympathetic to our cause. Why not others? Who better to communicate the imagination and excitement of science...