{"id":1158,"date":"2007-03-08T02:52:08","date_gmt":"2007-03-08T07:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2007\/03\/08\/skeptical-pluggery\/"},"modified":"2007-03-08T02:52:08","modified_gmt":"2007-03-08T07:52:08","slug":"skeptical-pluggery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/08\/skeptical-pluggery\/","title":{"rendered":"Skeptical Pluggery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Readers who hang out in the Southwestern quadrant of the U.S. should be aware of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skeptic.com\/lectures\/category\/upcoming\/\">lecture series at Caltech<\/a> sponsored by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skeptic.com\/\">Skeptic&#8217;s Society<\/a>.  Past speakers include such luminaries as Richard Dawkins and Lisa Randall; future highlights include a debate between Frank Tipler and Lawrence Krauss on &#8220;Can Physics Prove  God and Christianity?&#8221;  That should be, how shall we say, somewhat surreal.<\/p>\n<p>This Sunday at 2:00 there is a lecture on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skeptic.com\/lectures\/2007\/03\/11\/physics-of-the-buffyverse\/\">The Physics of Pouty Teenagers Fighting Vampires<\/a>, or something like that.  Apparently there is even a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Physics-Buffyverse-Jennifer-Ouellette\/dp\/0143038621\/\">book<\/a> along those lines.  I&#8217;m too high-minded to think about such things myself, but I&#8217;ll probably go to this lecture, because the <a href=\"http:\/\/twistedphysics.typepad.com\/cocktail_party_physics\/\">speaker<\/a> looks like a total babe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Readers who hang out in the Southwestern quadrant of the U.S. should be aware of the lecture series at Caltech sponsored by the Skeptic&#8217;s Society. Past speakers include such luminaries as Richard Dawkins and Lisa Randall; future highlights include a debate between Frank Tipler and Lawrence Krauss on &#8220;Can Physics Prove God and Christianity?&#8221; That [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-society","category-words"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}