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🗓️ 27 January 2014
⏱️ 79 minutes
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0:00.0 | Join us this spring for the sixth annual nexus, the Northeast's largest conference dedicated to critical thinking and science education. |
0:08.0 | It's all going down in New York City the weekend of April 11th through 13th, 2014. |
0:13.0 | We're excited to feature a keynote by physicist Lawrence Krause, who's authored bestsellers like the Physics of Star Trek, |
0:19.0 | and who just starred with Richard Dawkins in a new film last year called The Unbelievers. |
0:24.2 | This is in addition to a great lineup of other speakers like Paul Offutt, |
0:28.4 | expert on vaccines and infectious disease, |
0:31.0 | and Katie Coleman, veteran astronaut for NASA. |
0:34.1 | Of course, Massimo and I will be there taping a live episode of the rationally speaking podcast, |
0:38.3 | and so will the cast of The Skeptics Guide to the Universe. Get your tickets now at nexus.org. That's |
0:44.4 | nec-s-s-S-S-D-org. Registration prices go up after March 20th, so don't wait. Get your tickets today. |
1:08.8 | Rationally speaking is a presentation of New York City skeptics dedicated to promoting critical thinking, skeptical inquiry, and science education. |
1:14.0 | For more information, please visit us at n.ycptics.org. |
1:26.9 | Welcome to rationally speaking, the podcast where we explore the borderlands between reason and nonsense. |
1:32.1 | I'm your host, Massimo Piliucci, and with me, as always, is my co-host, Julia Galev. |
1:37.1 | Julia, what's up today? |
1:38.5 | What's up today, Massimo? |
1:40.0 | Well, today we have a very special guest audience to help us celebrate our 100th episode of the Ratchelings Speaking podcast. |
1:49.2 | Say hello, audience. |
1:54.2 | And how's this going to work? |
1:58.1 | So that there's no topic today. |
2:01.0 | Essentially, we're doing a full episode of Q&A, where we invite the audience members to ask us anything. |
2:09.4 | And questions could range from science to philosophy, to social science, to culture, to our feelings about bumblebees, really anything you want to ask us, |
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