Yes, I know there are thousands of these this year, and by October we'll all be tired of them, but this one looks like the main game: Darwin/Chicago 2009. I am, of course, upset not to be invited to speak, but there are a few good names there to make up for my absence...
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A reader sent me this link, thinking I might find it funny. Why, yes I do.
The Morning News's Fifth Annual Tournament of Books, real March madness, is a true highlight of the near-Spring calendar. I'm told there is some other tournament this month, also capitalizing on the month "March" in its title.
I have no idea what possessed Action Skeptics to use the Sham Wow guy to present this week's entries, but it's amusing. Check it!
Probably going to fly in for this. Good groups of speakers - both scientific and non - and I've never actually been to Chicago (except to drive through).
Damn! Two things:
- Looking at the list of speakers alone you may be fooled into thinking the conference will be held at Harvard.
- Looking at the program you may wish you could be at two different places at the same time.
Speaking of which, why isn't Harvard having a big Darwin conference?
Not so great. Ruse is giving a talk: "Is Darwinism Past Its 'Sell-by' Date? The Challenge of Evo-Devo"
I think he's past his sell-by date.
Scott, Shubin, Futuyma, but not you? It's all phylogeny, paleontology, ontogeny. And some guy named Kitcher talking about philosphy. Who the frak is he? He wrote his books a long time ago, so anything he has to say is so outdated.