Videos of the 10:23 event on 5 and 6 February 2011 round the globe can be found here.
Written by Gabor Hrasko on Sunday, 6 June 2010
This September the Hungarian Skeptic Society is organizing the 14th European Skeptics Congress in Budapest. Promotion had just started and we are at the final steps to launch registration. Knowing the financial possibilities of the potential participants from this region, we are making special efforts to find sponsors to set up an affordable registration fee. It seems we will have a standard fee and also special fee for students and for the unemployed.
Anyhow we proceed and you can find more and more information about the program and venue on the congress web pages. Also, please visit the congress’ Facebook event page where you can indicate if you could participate or not. This is not an official registration and you can change your indication at any time on that page, but it is informative for us. Also it provides an online forum for you to discuss the relevant topics in advance. As you will see from my reasoning below, this would be extremely beneficial for the outcome of the congress. We are still accepting lecture proposals. If you are interested, please visit the Call for Papers page.
Written by Wendy Grossman on Monday, 24 May 2010
Martin Gardner (1914 - 2010)
James Randi posted today his first thoughts on the loss of his long-time friend and conspirator in skepticism, Martin Gardner. Gardner is an enormous loss to all of us: there is probably not a mathematician or scientist in the US over 40 – perhaps even over 35 – who wasn’t influenced by him.
I first heard of Gardner when I was 13 from my 9th and 10th grade math teacher, Nancy Rosenberg. At the time, Gardner was in the middle of his 30-year stint writing the mathematical games column for Scientific American, and she was a huge fan. She taught us to make hexaflexagons and play Nim (which my father and I played for years on restaurant placemats while waiting for food), among other things.
I first learned about paranormal investigation from watching Randi do a lecture/demonstration at Cornell in January, 1982. But what made CSICOP, now CSI a credible organization to me was learning that Gardner (along with Randi and Carl Sagan) was a co-founder. His book Science: Good, Bad, and Bogus was the first skeptical book I read, and the presence of yet another decades-long column of his in Skeptical Inquirer was a major reason I began reading the magazine regularly. Later, of course, I founded my own.
He was still writing, sharp as ever, until very recently, well into his 90s. A great loss.
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