{"id":1205,"date":"2007-04-21T12:44:05","date_gmt":"2007-04-21T17:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2007\/04\/21\/yk2\/"},"modified":"2007-04-21T12:44:05","modified_gmt":"2007-04-21T17:44:05","slug":"yk2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/21\/yk2\/","title":{"rendered":"YK2"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know that you’ve all booked your tickets for Chicago in August, for the big YearlyKos<\/a> shindig. True, it’s not exactly like going to a physics conference; the halls will be filled with candidates trying to drum up votes, and people who use words like “netroots” unironically. But if last year’s event<\/a> was any indication, there should be all sorts of fun people there, even if it’s harder to find poker tables in Chicago than in Vegas. (You have to go to the riverboats in Gary.)<\/p>\n

Like last year, the inimitable DarkSyde is making sure that science is well-represented, including a high-powered Science Panel<\/a>. Last year the role of “bearded ScienceBlogger battling against creationism” was played by PZ Myers<\/a>; this year it will be played by Ed Brayton<\/a>. The role of “clean-shaven 4-star general who will talk about cosmology and the anthropic principle” was played last year by Wesley Clark; this year it will be me, except for the 4-star general part. The role of Chris Mooney will continue to be played by Chris Mooney<\/a>. I’m honored to be participating, even if the commenters at Daily Kos are wishing it was my fiancee<\/a> instead.<\/p>\n

I hope any readers who are at the event will give a shout. It will be fun to return to the old haunts, go down to 75th Street to listen to Vonski<\/a>, maybe indulge at Alinea<\/a> if we save our pennies. And we all know that the weather in Chicago in August is invariably pleasant and charming, so there’s really no exuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I know that you’ve all booked your tickets for Chicago in August, for the big YearlyKos shindig. True, it’s not exactly like going to a physics conference; the halls will be filled with candidates trying to drum up votes, and people who use words like “netroots” unironically. But if last year’s event was any indication, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205","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=1205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}