{"id":11895,"date":"2014-04-07T09:05:38","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T16:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/?p=11895"},"modified":"2014-04-07T09:05:38","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T16:05:38","slug":"peregrinations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/07\/peregrinations\/","title":{"rendered":"Peregrinations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Running around these days, doing some linear combination of actual work and talking about things. (Sometimes the talking leads to actual work, so it&#8217;s not a total loss.) If you happen to be in a sciencey kind of mood when I&#8217;m in your vicinity, feel free to come to a talk and say hi!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Today<\/strong>, if you happen to be in Walla Walla, Washington, I&#8217;ll be giving <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitman.edu\/newsroom\/campus-events\/the-particle-at-the-end-of-the-universe-the-hunt-for-the-higgs-boson-and-the-future-of-physics\">the Brattain lecture at Whitman College,<\/a> on the Higgs boson and the hunt therefor.<\/li>\n<li>Next week I&#8217;ll be in Austin, TX. On Thursday April 17, I&#8217;ll be speaking in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utexas.edu\/ugs\/researchweek\/events\/distinguished-lecture-series-dr-sean-carroll-presents-particle-end-universe\">Distinguished Lecture Series<\/a>, once again on the marvels of the Higgs. <\/li>\n<li>In May I&#8217;ll be headed to the Big Apple twice. The first time will be on May 7 for an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intelligencesquaredus.org\/debates\/upcoming-debates\/item\/1020-death-is-not-final\">Intelligence Squared Debate<\/a>. The subject will be &#8220;Is There Life After Death?&#8221; I&#8217;ll be saying <a href=\"https:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/23\/physics-and-the-immortality-of-the-soul\/\">no<\/a>, and Steven Novella will be along there with me; our opponents will be Eben Alexander and Raymond Moody.<\/li>\n<li>Then back home for a bit, and then back to NYC again, for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldsciencefestival.com\/\">World Science Festival<\/a>. I&#8217;ll be participating in a few events there between May 29 and 31, although precise spatio-temporal locations have yet to be completely determined. One will be about &#8220;Science and Story,&#8221; one will be a screening of <a href=\"http:\/\/particlefever.com\/\">Particle Fever<\/a>, and one will be a book event.<\/li>\n<li>I won&#8217;t even have a chance to return home from NYC before jetting to the UK for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cheltenhamfestivals.com\/science\">Cheltenham Science Festival<\/a>. Once again, participating in a few different events, all on June 3\/4: something on Science and Hollywood, something on the Higgs, and something on the arrow of time. Check local listings!<\/li>\n<li>A chance I will be in Oxford right after Cheltenham, but nothing&#8217;s settled yet.<\/li>\n<li>That&#8217;s it. Looking forward to a glorious summer full of real productivity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Running around these days, doing some linear combination of actual work and talking about things. (Sometimes the talking leads to actual work, so it&#8217;s not a total loss.) If you happen to be in a sciencey kind of mood when I&#8217;m in your vicinity, feel free to come to a talk and say hi! Today, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11895","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=11895"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11897,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11895\/revisions\/11897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}