I just received my panel schedule for Worldcon! I can’t wait for the chance to go up there and share my knowledge, and I hope to see lots of you there!
The Real Lab
Thursday Aug. 18, 18:00 – 19:00, room 2208 (Kansas City Convention Center)
Sometimes things go very right in the lab, and sometimes things go horribly wrong. Professional scientists discuss the sometimes terrifying, often hilarious, crazy things that can happen when working in the lab. How does science happen and is it really as clean cut and precise as we are led to believe? How has science organized itself so that error corrects solid knowledge out of the human stew?
Dr Helen Pennington, Dr. Ronald Taylor, MR. Donald Douglas Fratz, Benjamin C. Kinney, Sharon Joss (M)
Thinking Through Neuroscience in SF and Fantasy
Saturday Aug. 20, 16:00 – 17:00, room 2209 (Kansas City Convention Center)
Neuroscience is a complex and rapidly developing area of technological advancement. We look at some of the recent advances as well as discussing how these are reinterpreted in SF and Fantasy media.
S.B. Divya (M), Anna Kashina, Benjamin C. Kinney, Caroline M. Yoachim
I Don’t Believe In Science
Sunday Aug. 21, 13:00 – 14:00, room 2204 (Kansas City Convention Center)
All too often we hear about people who “Don’t Believe in Science,” but science isn’t about belief. A discussion about why talking about science in terms of belief does science, and faith, a disservice.
Brother Guy Consolmagno SJ1, Carl Fink, Benjamin C. Kinney, Dr. Heather Urbanski (M), Renée Sieber
Um, I think you mean August, not Septmeber?
What are you talking about, it says August! It always said August. Yes.