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Back from The Amazing Meeting (TAM) 9!

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    Back from The Amazing Meeting (TAM) 9!

    http://www.amazingmeeting.com/


    I had an AMAZING! (pun intended) time! I'm such a snerd that I may have enjoyed the space panel with Neil deGrasse Tyson, Pamela Gay, Lawrence Krauss, and Bill Nye as much as the best of the talks.


    Photo by science writer, Jennifer Oullette.

    Dawkins and PZ Myers nearly put me to sleep and I actually find evolutionary theory interesting!!!

    Pamela Gay brought tears to my eyes (but I didn't cry and don't believe anyone that tells you otherwise!).

    Tyson was awesome as always and everyone begged for him to keep going when he was over the allotted time. Graciously, he obliged.

    Richard Wiseman was fantastic (but I knew the material he discussed already).

    Elizabeth Loftus needed more time, but was good (knew this stuff too, as memory is my focus).

    Bill Nye was great -- "Let's change the world!!" and I'm uber jealous that he was Carl Sagan's student.

    Carol Tavris gave an wonderful talk that couldn't have been more appropriate.

    Steve Novella gave an interesting talk about mental illness and corrected my understanding of "chemical imbalances." Apparently, as he put it, this has been oversimplified to the point of being ... WRONG.

    Lawrence Krauss talked about Richard Feynman and this too was interesting. Glimpses into Feynman's genius...

    Illustrator/Manga artist Sara Mayhew was wonderful too. I'm looking forward to reading Legend of the Ztarr

    Penn Jillete's "Doughnuts and Bacon" party was fun, but his band is... well, let's say they're not quitting their day jobs... It didn't help that the room they were in was not built for good acoustics.

    Awesome news is that Dawkins' foundation is going to pay for child care at future TAMs to help all parents (he said "mothers" specifically) to attend. Very nice!
    Oh! And I met/saw 4 other Armenians there! There were 1652 attendees (!!! there were 9xx at TAM6 which was my first TAM) so I may have missed a few.
    I believe the JREF will be releasing videos (FREE!!!) in the coming weeks, so I will update to add those when they're available.
    [COLOR=#4b0082][B][SIZE=4][FONT=trebuchet ms]“If you think you can, or you can’t, you’re right.”
    -Henry Ford[/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/COLOR]
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    Re: Back from The Amazing Meeting (TAM) 9!

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      Re: Back from The Amazing Meeting (TAM) 9!

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        Re: Back from The Amazing Meeting (TAM) 9!

        Sounds cool... i've always wanted to meet Bill Nye.

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          Re: Back from The Amazing Meeting (TAM) 9!

          Originally posted by ara87 View Post
          Sounds cool... i've always wanted to meet Bill Nye.
          He's pretty awesome.


          Here's a piece of a similar (but much longer) talk at Skeptic Society's Science Symposium.

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          [COLOR=#4b0082][B][SIZE=4][FONT=trebuchet ms]“If you think you can, or you can’t, you’re right.”
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