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« Planet with 5 times Earth’s mass found 25,000 light years away
TAM 4: Report #1 »

Next stop: TAM 4!

‘First off : Don’t forget to vote for the Bad Astronomy Blog in this year’s "Bloggies"!

Second off: if you catch this in time, I’ll be on Coast to Coast AM Wednesday night at 10:00 p.m. Pacific time to discuss the new planet discovered (see previous the blog entry).

Third off, I’m going to TAM!

Thursday morning I get on a plane for Las Vegas, to attend James Randi’s The Amaz!ng Meeting. Woohoo! Like I did for the American Astronomical Society meeting two weeks ago, I plan on blogging as often as I can from the meeting to relate events and other fun things going on (including the poker tournament I have no hope of winning, the chocolate challenge, and perhaps — perhaps — a hallway debate between me and another astronomer on whether Pluto is a planet or not (it is, but it shouldn’t be)).

Fourth off, anyway, I may not be able to write here until late Thursday. Until then, do yourself a favor: the new and improved Skepchick website now has features, news, and more. Skeptical reading fun for the whole family! And, occasionally, nudity. So maybe not for the whole family.’

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January 25th, 2006 9:05 PM by Phil Plait in Antiscience, Astronomy, Cool stuff, Debunking, Science, Skepticism | 8 comments | RSS feed | Trackback >

8 Responses to “Next stop: TAM 4!”

  1. 1.   Nigel Depledge Says:
    January 26th, 2006 at 12:00 am

    10 pm Pacific Time … that’s … er … 6am Thursday here in the UK. I was asleep.

  2. 2.   bad blog reader Says:
    January 26th, 2006 at 3:16 am

    really I think every body here voted for you. you really want to win dontcha?

  3. 3.   Wendy Says:
    January 26th, 2006 at 8:14 am

    Say Hi to Jim Underdown from his three favorite skepchicks Wendy, Sherri and Alice.

  4. 4.   Kaptain K Says:
    January 26th, 2006 at 11:18 am

    Too bad I didn’t read this until Thursday afternoon! :-(

  5. 5.   george Says:
    January 26th, 2006 at 6:53 pm

    Don’t forget the Planetary Society’s pro and con reasons for planetary status for Pluto….[url="http://planetary.org/explore/topics/topten/"] here [/url]. :)

    Request: Ya’ll find a clever term for the creationists which are YEC, so that false generalizations aren’t used; since the majority of creationists are pro-science.

  6. 6.   Kevin from NYC Says:
    January 26th, 2006 at 8:15 pm

    I clicked on the ads which appeared.

    everyone should

  7. 7.   Wolverine Says:
    January 27th, 2006 at 2:25 am

    Does this belong in the “Antiscience” category? Anti-antiscience perhaps. ;)

  8. 8.   outeast Says:
    January 27th, 2006 at 6:08 am

    Speaking of antiscience, more perfect ad targeting from Goooooogle [sic]AdNonsense – ‘Aether Theories: Relativity is a nonsense Provides a revolution in physics’ [sic]. Way to go!

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