Skepchick Evelyn (who also comments here now and then) is writing an interesting series of posts that consist of interviews by her of her dad, an Nuclear Engineer, regarding what is going on in Japan. I think this link is probably the best way to get to them.
Speaking of Skepchicks, you should check out this post. It's amazing. Yet mundane. You will, like, totally LOL. Hebbo.
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The question has been asked: What was the sex ratio of attendees of the recent SkepchickCON Track at CONvergence, and of the panelists? To this it would be nice (and appropriate) to add the same questions for CONvergence as a whole. I have some, but not all, of that information.
The Lynn Margulis blog tour has moved on to Memoirs of a Skepchick—if you weren't satisfied with her answers here, you can try again.
Today is the first day of SkepchickCON at CONvergence. CONvergence is the largest fan run fantasy and science fiction convention in the US and or World and possibly Universe, depending. It is held in a suburb of Minneapolis. One gazillion people are in attendance.
Last Fourth of July Weekend, I attended Skepchicon, which is a "track" at a "con" (where a con is a thing where everyone dresses up like Darth Vader or a Twilight character or whatever). I was on the panel for a couple of sessions and participated in others, and had a blast.
I used to follow skepchick on RSS but I found most posts irrelevant or silly. I follow about 50 blogs and cut out ones like that.
Skepchicks' blog is more of a commenting community forum kind of place than an essay-rich blog. The best thing, though, are the skepchicks themselves. I'm fortunate that a few of them are my friends and neighbors, and many of them gather in the Twin Cities in July.
If you want to read more substantive stuff, check out their individual blogs, off the skeptchick site.
Hey Greg! Thank you so much for the shout-out.
Because Skepchick has become more of a commenting/linking sort of site (rather than essay site), I have moved my geology posts to my own blog:
http://georneys.blogspot.com/
I still cross-post on Skepchick now and then because I think some Skepchick readers would like some of my articles, which are usually geology-related.
Also- sorry if my posts on your past nuclear post were a little upset-sounding. There just has been so much misinformation circulating the net.
I hope people like my blog! I hope that the nuclear crisis in Japan calms down soon so that I can (mostly) go back to posting about rocks.
Greg, I usually overlook your typos, but you will want to correct one particularly unfortunate one before certain other bloggers who have done so in the past go all whargarbl on you again.
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