October 21, 2010 – 10:44 pm
Notable talks Susan Blackmore presented an excerpt of her first years of research on paranormal. She shows intriguing statistics on paranormal evaluation, describes some techniques used for cold reading. A consistent part of her talk was relative to physiological explanations of different phenomena our minds perceive as paranormal or mystic. More specifically, she touches arguments [...]
October 21, 2010 – 12:30 am
This post continues my review on TAMLondon 2010. I will go into details of the audience and the talks, and memorable quotes. I keep the individual talks for the last post, due tomorrow. The audience: with an audience reaching one thousand delegates (more than twice the first edition), question time was in some cases limited, [...]
October 20, 2010 – 1:19 am
TAM London 2010 was highly different from the first European edition in 2009. If I had to describe the 2009 edition in just three words, these would be: showmen/women, music, science. For this year edition, the three words would be very different: interviews, feelings, activism. First, interviews. For the sake of argument, I will consider [...]
October 18, 2010 – 12:08 am
I just arrived home from The Amazing Meeting 2010, and I would really like to report my warm comments on the event, but for practical reasons I am forced to delay a clearly articulate post. Those who followed @forthescience on twitter already had an idea of the event, although reporting with clarity a live situation [...]
October 16, 2010 – 10:16 am
I am attending the Amazing Meeting in London. I am tweeting updates on @forthescience like last year.
October 6, 2009 – 12:44 am
I am currently at Stansted, waiting for my flight. After two very intense days, I must say. The Amazing Meeting was already amazing by sheer definition, but it went beyond that. Great showmen and great scientists. Interesting discussions ranging from science to philosophy, psychology, and freedom of press. Magicians performed in front of my very [...]
September 21, 2009 – 11:35 pm
At the beginning of October I will attend The Amazing Meeting in London. Yes, I was able to grab a ticket. Insane competition, the event sold out in just two hours. The Amazing Meeting is a meeting of scientists and skeptics organized by the James Randi Foundation. James Randi is a professional magician who offers [...]