phil plait

from 24th-28th April. Yesterday twitch started streaming the original Cosmos series with Carl Sagan https://www.twitch.tv/cosmos The rest of the week they are having live interviews and Q & A with scientists, tomorrow (26th) there is a roundtable which includes Phil Plait. Full schedule...

As part of NECSS Weekend, we are offering group visits to the American Museum of Natural History. As an added bonus some special guests, including Phil Plait, John Rennie, and Steve Novella will be joining each group. Phil Plait and John Rennie will be joining the Museum+Space Show group on...

Next year's Northeast Conference on Science and Skepticism will take place on April 9-10, 2011 in New York City. This will be our third annual conference, and it will bigger and better in every way -- with a larger venue, more speakers, and more events! The conference will be expanding to two...

Has anyone watched this yet? I saw the first episode (I think there's going to be 3 in the mini-series, shown on Discovery Channel) and it was pretty neat. Phil Plait sounded pretty alarmist in the episode, but my guess is that he's trying to get more people interested in the stuff (not a bad...

Phil Plait's show "Bad Universe" next Sunday on the Discovery Channel. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/07/27/bad-universe-coming-to-a-discovery-channel-near-you/

I was just listening to Phil Plait's thoughtful, intelligent and useful TAM 8 talk. I want to address it properly, but I was interested in a number of issues that arose. Firstly, the "JREF is anot an atheist organisation" as Randi always said. Plait's ( i don't want to call him Phil as i don't...

I've been sitting here for a while just drooling over the images that Cassini just sent back. It's amazing to see the things that this probe has done. Dr. Plaits thoughts on it: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/08/05/saturn-and-the-nearest-star I find it amazing that the...

Phil Plait writes about this on his Skeptologist blog this week and I think this commencement speech deserves discussing... I'm including the link to the video as well as the transcript of the speech itself. Lets have it...

According to ex-president Dr. Phil Plait, the JREF Million Dollar Challenge (MDC) is not ending, but will be reorganized. The new version will be launched this spring. Shortly after this announcement, in August 2009, RemieV made the last update so far in the "Challenge Applications" section...

In the unofficial chat room at skepticsrock, I found out that the 4 spots that go with Phil Plait to the observatory on Sunday night are auctioned as a block. I'm coming alone, and have some money I was going to put towards the bidding. I was wondering if I could find 3 other people to go in...

The Atlanta Skeptics are sponsoring a star gazing party the day before Dragon*Con. Tickets are on sale here and are limited, so buy early! The party is being hosted by Phil Plait and Pamela Gay and proceeds will go to the American Cancer Society in memory of Jeff Medkeff. Also, it should be a...

The Bad Astronomer, and JREF President, Phil Plait will be speaking in Calgary. Date: Thursday, April 16, 2009 Time: 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM Place: The Discovery Dome at the TELUS World of Science 701-11th Street SW (previously the Calgary Science Centre) Cost: Free. Dr. Plait is...

NYC Skeptics is pleased to host Dr. Phil Plait at a special wine and hors d'oeuvres reception on Sunday April 19th at 7:00 PM. Dr. Plait is president of the James Randi Educational Foundation and writes the "Bad Astronomy" blog for Discover.com. He has won numerous awards for his writing...

You can vote for Phil to be the NASA administrator here: http://obamanasa.uservoice.com/

Phil Plait was at the Boulder Bookstore tonight talking about his new book Death from the Skies! Whilst peering suspiciously at the ceiling, waiting for a comet or asteroid to come crashing through, we (wunky and I) were thoroughly entertained and educated in some of the myrid ways in which the...

Folks, I'm looking to write up some stuff about green laser pointers, and I was wondering if anyone took any good pictures of the one I used on the Galapagos trip. I don't have any, and a search of Flickr came up empty. If you have any, please let me know: thebadastronomer "at" gmail "dot" com...

Check it out---JREF, Mythbusters, and Phil Plait, all mentioned in the same paragraph of the same article! (This is a yahoo news item...maybe someone with more internet-fu can post a more permanent link.)

Well, it seems the JREF has a new president, and I have to say I think Phil Plait is a great choice. I've only seem him talk a couple of times and he was, quite frankly, awesome, and I'm sure many people have enjoyed his badastronomy blog. In addition, I think it's nice to have someone with a...

Here's my Theory.... Phil is trying to take over the Skeptic Community one Board at a time. First he had his on BBAB, but for power crazed Phil Plait this was not enough. He plotted and quickly took over the Universe Today boards merging it to become BAUT (Notice that the Bad Astronomy part is...

Conspiracies, cosmic mysteries, sceptics, and conjurers on the pod this week.

Folks- I will be in the UK on April 17th on my way to Geneva to go deep underground to investigate the Large Hadron Collider and see if it will really destroy the planet. OK, it's really to make silly videos about it, but it means I'm in England at the same time as Randi. So we decided to do a...

I have officially endorsed JREF's own Hal Bidlack to represent Colorado's 5th District in the US House of Representatives. And by official, I mean I posted it on my blog. I would appreciate it if, over the next few hours, people clicked the yellow "Digg" button at the top of the post, so that...

Phil is coming to London on the 17th April and will hopefully have a free day for a meet? Brian Cox's wife, Gia, is booking venue around his trip, but I'll put more details on here, as and when I get them. So, for the time being who's in?

Folks-- I put up a blog entry today called "Is Science faith-based?" because I am good and sick of hearing the definition of science abused by the willfully (and woefully) ignorant. I'm curious about peoples' thoughts on this. I hope this is useful.

Oi! Are you Australian, or in Australia, and coming to TAM 5.5? I need Minties! I'm addicted to the gorram things, they're basically unavailable in the US, and I'm almost out. Like, I have five left in a little plastic bag, and I'm holding back from devouring them. I'll be at TAM 5.5, so I'll...

I will be in Austin Texas starting Monday for a meeting of the American Astronomical Society. Fellow astrobloggers Fraser Cain (Universe Today) and Pamela Gay (Astronomy Cast) will be there too, so we are holding a get together Tuesday at 8:00 p.m. at the Iron Cactus, an awesome bar (it has a...

I'm very pleased to let everyone know that I'll be the Master of Ceremonies at TAM 5.5! Hal couldn't make it so they asked me. Obviously, they just wanted someone funny this year. I'm can't wait to head down to Florida (especially given the weather here in Boulder the past few weeks) and get...

Well, my irony gland is pegged once again. The TAPS guys asked to be my friend on MySpace. So, I replied to them. I wonder if they'll write me back?

In this thread, there is some general grumbling about dishonesty in creationist circles. Is it possible that Phil Plait--the Bad Astronomer--is setting himself up to be abused by creationists? In a blog entry entitled "The supernatural does not exist," Phil talks a bit about pseudoscience...

Someone's mad, lol. 3D3kFn_3xRY