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Skepticamp Denver 2012

TsarBomba

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We now have a date and venue for the sixth Skepticamp to be held in the Denver metro area: May 5, 2012 in Parker, CO.

For more information, and to sign up, go to the Skepticamp website.

From the Skepticamp Wiki:

Don't let the "camp" fool you. SkeptiCamp is NOT a kid's camp. Nor does it involve the outdoors.
Rather, it's a new approach to conferencing with practices and goals that diverge markedly from the traditional lecture events which have dominated organized skepticism for decades.
More specifically, SkeptiCamp is an event model that builds on a set of practices adapted from the wildly-successful Barcamp conference model that debuted in the tech community in 2005.
First among the practices: these are open events where anyone with a desire to learn and share is welcome to participate.
Second, we compensate for our lack of experience as organizers through collaboration, spreading the effort among many.
And third, we encourage, but don't require, each participant to offer an interactive talk on a science or skeptic theme to share with his or her peers.
Our central goal arrives from Barcamp as well: to tear down the barriers to organizing substantive events that focus on sharing knowledge within communities of skeptics.
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From what I understand, the ones in Atlanta & Chicago are better.

St. Louis will be the best, but ours isn't until August.
 
Bumping this up!

Hey, there's time to sign up for the Denver-area Skepticamp, the best Skepticamp in the whole country! :D I was going to give a talk, but had to back out as I have to prepare for my move.

But I went last year and they put on a good one.
 
The event is now 8 days away (Saturday May 5). We currently have 86 people scheduled to attend, and 16 speakers. We have more people signed up to attend than the fire code will allow, but we always have no-shows, so if you live in Denver area, you may want to check out our website.

Here is the current version of our schedule of speakers/events:

  • 9:20 Intro and announcements. Rich Orman and MC Joe Anderson
  • 9:30-9:45 Miranda Celeste Hale--Pragmatic Rhetoric for Idealistic Skeptics.
  • 9:45-10:00 Kimberly Parker - Punk Rock Science and Skepticism
  • 10:00-10:30 Stuart Robbins - "GAPs You Must Ignore or Believe to Be a Young-Earth Creationist (Geology, Astronomy, Physics)"
  • 10:30-11:00 Ari Armstrong - A Critical Evaluation of Sam Harris's Ethics
  • 11:00-11:30 John Schuermann - A Horror Film for Skeptics - 25 minutes
  • 11:30-12:00 Michael Clifton - Election myths and voter apathy
  • 12:00-12:45 LUNCH
  • 12:45-1:15 Orson Olson - "Cosmoclimatology-the emerging paradigm shift in climate science?" - 25 min
  • 1:15-2:15 Bryan and Baxter - CAM in Colorado vs. B&B or "Here come the lawsuits!"
  • 2:15-2:30 Desertphile "Godless car thieves" or "Richard Dawkins stole my Toyota"
  • 2:30-2:45 Lightning Round (Kimberly Savaino, Rick Duffy, and Reed Esau)
  • 2:45-3:15 Steve Aldrich psychic demo
  • 3:15-3:45 Morgan Levy, MD- THE NEUROSCIENCE OF RELIGIOUS BEHAVIOR -25 min
  • 3:45-4:15 Chalmer Wren IV, 25 Minutes, presentation titled "AIDS Denialism: Death Machine"
  • 4:20-4:50 Bryan Hineser - Skeptics Quiz 30 min
 
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