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22nd October 2021, 07:19 PM | #1 |
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CSICon 2022 - October 20 to 23, 2022
A year from this post shall be the weekend of CSICon 2022! Save the date!
They claim this will be the "Best CSICon, Yet!" I don't know exactly what they mean by that, but I can believe it*. Anyone else planning to go? * Just kidding! No, I'm actually quite skeptical of that claim. But, I am willing to see what it's going to be like, for myself. |
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23rd February 2022, 07:50 PM | #2 |
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Recent social media posts from CSI seem to cofirm CSICON is going to go on!
...and if all goes well, there might be a Table of Scientific Curiosities to visit while attending. |
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24th February 2022, 04:17 AM | #3 |
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Can someone provide a prediction of what version of COVID will be spreading in October? This will no doubt influence my decision whether to attend.
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24th February 2022, 06:17 PM | #4 |
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2nd March 2022, 11:28 AM | #5 |
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10th March 2022, 07:53 AM | #6 |
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For my birthday, I am ordering up a few new science toys for the Table of Scientific Curiosities we are planning to lut together for this conference.
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30th March 2022, 05:22 PM | #7 |
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CSICon 2022 planning
I just heard from Pat Beauchamp today. While she retired in 2020, she's coming out of retirement to run CSICon 2022!
The call for volunteers has started! You'll help for about four hours, and none of that time will be during anything that you've paid for -- when the talks start, we're in our seats. In exchange you'll get free admission to the party Saturday night, and are invited to the free staff & volunteer dinner (probably Thursday night 5:30-6:30pm). Sometime speakers attend the dinner too. Volunteering may have other, random perks. Once, the two volunteers who were checking badges before the magic show were asked by Banachek to be part of his show. Another time, the volunteer who was helping organize the book signing lines had to spend 15 minutes in a room with the authors as some technical glitches delayed the start. I always randomly assign volunteers to check tickets for the Thursday workshops; and once the workshop starts I insist that you continue checking from inside the workshop. We volunteers help with setup and tear-down (mainly of the book sales area), help at the registration area, check badges and tickets (all before events begin), organize the book signing lines, and so on. If you attended one of the last CSICons and preregistered, a volunteer probably handed you your packet. During the popular booksigning events, you may have heard me saying "The end of the line is in front of me" as I backed away from the rapidly growing line. The we site hasn't been update from 2019 yet, but if you go to https://csiconference.org/, click on Info, scroll down and click on Volunteer, that page has the email address to use, volunteering@csiconference.org. I coordinate the easy stuff; if you have other relevant skills, e.g. award-winning PR abilities, I'll put you in touch with the CSI staff. |
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30th March 2022, 11:13 PM | #8 |
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I have scorn-winning PR abilities.
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31st March 2022, 09:25 PM | #9 |
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Excellent! I shall, once again, volunteer as Volunteer this year!
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4th April 2022, 09:12 AM | #10 |
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Thanks Wowbagger!
Gerdbonk, while we can't use your scorn-winning abilities, we can use help at the other tasks, and perhaps hanging around the CFI staff could improve your PR abilities. :-) This will be a different convention without Randi. |
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11th April 2022, 06:16 AM | #11 |
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Anyone have a link to the guest/speaker list?
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11th April 2022, 06:32 AM | #12 |
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No, sorry, I haven't seen anything beyond the "Save the Date" ads.
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16th April 2022, 01:24 PM | #13 |
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I heard a rumor that one of the highlights for this year will be some sort of Table of Scientific Curiosities of some sort.
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16th April 2022, 10:01 PM | #14 |
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No True Skeptic would believe such rumors.
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30th April 2022, 09:49 PM | #15 |
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What's with the countdown clock? CSICon 2022
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1st May 2022, 07:51 AM | #16 |
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That's the wrong conference, the Cardiological Society of India. You want https://csiconference.org/, but it hasn't been updated since CSIcon 2019.
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19th May 2022, 06:26 PM | #17 |
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20th May 2022, 09:09 AM | #18 |
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There was an image with a speaker's list with the 26 May ""Skeptical Inquirer Presents" announcement. We've got:
* Penn & Teller * Julia Sweeney * Naomi Oreskes * Neil deGrasse Tyson * Richard Dawkins * Seema Yasmin * Richard Wiseman * Natalia Pasternak * Banachek * Timothy Caulfield * George Hrab * Joseph Uscinski * Odaelys Walwyn-Pollard * Piff the Magic Dragon * and many more The call for Sunday papers is open too! |
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20th May 2022, 02:25 PM | #19 |
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Registration is now open! https://csiconference.org/
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20th May 2022, 04:05 PM | #20 |
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I know this might be long shot, but if anyone going wants to save money on a room, they can share a room with me! My usual roommate, Steve Bauer, might not be able to make it this year.
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2nd July 2022, 05:43 AM | #21 |
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Hi everyone,
I've got a number of volunteers but I could use a few more. Sixteen weeks to go! |
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5th August 2022, 03:45 PM | #22 |
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Eleven weeks! How many fellow Forum members will be there?
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25th August 2022, 10:09 AM | #23 |
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I have a red-eye flight home Sunday night so I have the late afternoon and evening free. Banachek is performing at the Strat, and his Mind Games Live has a 4pm show. Tickets start at $29. Is anyone interested in joining me?
Eight weeks to go! |
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25th August 2022, 10:45 AM | #24 |
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I probably won't make it this year and, given my age, probably never ever again but I did find lots of stuff to read here:
https://skepticalinquirer.org/category/csicon/Anticipating CSICon 2022 |
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7th September 2022, 01:52 PM | #25 |
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Won't be long, now. Just a month and a half or so to go!
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30th September 2022, 07:09 AM | #26 |
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Tickets are still available.
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16th October 2022, 05:41 PM | #27 |
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When I spoke with Pat Beauchamp about a week ago she said pre-registration was around 650, which is about what it was pre-COVID.
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17th October 2022, 05:27 PM | #28 |
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Cool. That's even better than the "about 600" number I was given a while back.
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