Jamila Bey - 2012 and the Faithless
1. Who Invented Beauty -- Madison Avenue or Charles Darwin?
1. Reporters: Fair, Balanced and Gullible? (Bob Hirshon)
Monsters vs. Aliens - Panel Skeptical Gameshow at BaltiCon 2014
Sagan's Toolkit: Weird Science, Pseudoscience, and Skepticism (Thomas Holtz)
Phil Plait (The Bad Astronomer) Receives the NCAS Philip J. Klass Award 2013
The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory (Jesse Walker)
Evaluating Alternative Sources of Energy: Solar Energy from Space (Paul Jaffe)
Question False Truths in Astronomy - Dr. Pamela Gay
The Legacy of Martin Gardner, Skeptic Supreme (Colm Mulcahy)
Where Did We All Come From? Tracing Human Migration Using Genetic Markers
How Alternative Medicine Has Infiltrated U.S. Medical Schools - Steve Salzberg
The Investigative Process: Solving a 1947 UFO Mystery (Antonio Paris)
The World of Weird News: Bigfoot, UFOs and Other Questionable Claims (Sharon Hill)
Jamila Bey - 2012 and the Faithless
1. Who Invented Beauty -- Madison Avenue or Charles Darwin?
1. Reporters: Fair, Balanced and Gullible? (Bob Hirshon)
Monsters vs. Aliens - Panel Skeptical Gameshow at BaltiCon 2014
Sagan's Toolkit: Weird Science, Pseudoscience, and Skepticism (Thomas Holtz)
Phil Plait (The Bad Astronomer) Receives the NCAS Philip J. Klass Award 2013
The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory (Jesse Walker)
Evaluating Alternative Sources of Energy: Solar Energy from Space (Paul Jaffe)
Question False Truths in Astronomy - Dr. Pamela Gay
The Legacy of Martin Gardner, Skeptic Supreme (Colm Mulcahy)
Where Did We All Come From? Tracing Human Migration Using Genetic Markers
How Alternative Medicine Has Infiltrated U.S. Medical Schools - Steve Salzberg
The Investigative Process: Solving a 1947 UFO Mystery (Antonio Paris)
The World of Weird News: Bigfoot, UFOs and Other Questionable Claims (Sharon Hill)
Cybercrime and Cyberscams
Mysterious Delusions of Satan: Witchcraft at Salem (Prof. Walter F. Rowe)
Conspiracy Theories - Bruce Press (BaltiCon 2013)
The Decline (and Probable Fall) of the Scientology Empire - Jim Lippard
Einstein's Jewish Science? Looking at Physics, Politics, and Religion (Steve Gimbel)
Predictive Neuroscience: Facts, Fictions, and Fears of Scanning Brains and Reading Minds
Life Beyond Earth: The Search is On, and the Results are Tantalizing (Marc Kaufman)
Quantum Mechanics & Spooky Action at a Distance
Paul Carr: A Perspective on Skeptical UFOlogy and a Case Study (BaltiCon 2013)
The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson Phil Plait Full HD Interview.mp4
Behind the Molly - Extended Interview with Phil Plait
De5ertBus - Interview: Phil Plait the Bad Astronomer
Pint in the Sky: "Bad Astronomer" Dr Phil Plait, part 1
Pint in the Sky: "Bad Astronomer" Dr Phil Plait, part 2
MoonFaker: Phil Plait, Mythbusters & Dirty Tricks. PART 1
Interview with Philip Plait - Part 2a
Interview with Philip Plait - Part 2b
Phil Plait on American Freethought 5/5
Skeptics in the Tub with Phil Plait
Phil Plait on American Freethought 4/5
The Never Ending Cosmos 02 - WiFi Phobia & Phil Plait
Adam Savage, Phil Plait, and Veronica Belmont Talk Science
I have discovered Phil Plait's Secret.
Phil Plait, "Don't Be a Dick" (Part 1 of 3)
MoonFaker: Phil Plait, Mythbusters & Dirty Tricks. PART 2
MOON TALKS Joe Rogan, Phil Plait Penn Jillette Part 1
Astronomer Phil Plait - 2012: The Year Nothing Happened
Phil Plait: The Bad Astronomer takes on the Apollo Moon Landing Hoax/Conspiracy Theory!
Phil Plait's Bad Universe [Skeptically Tuned (episode 3)]
Phil Plait- Point of Inquiry 2/4
MoonFaker: Phil Plait, Mythbusters & Dirty Tricks. PART 3
Randi and Phil Plait at TAM 5
Charles Robert Darwin, FRS (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.
Darwin published his theory with compelling evidence for evolution in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species, overcoming scientific rejection of earlier concepts of transmutation of species. By the 1870s the scientific community and much of the general public had accepted evolution as a fact. However, many favoured competing explanations and it was not until the emergence of the modern evolutionary synthesis from the 1930s to the 1950s that a broad consensus developed in which natural selection was the basic mechanism of evolution. In modified form, Darwin's scientific discovery is the unifying theory of the life sciences, explaining the diversity of life.
Darwin's early interest in nature led him to neglect his medical education at the University of Edinburgh; instead, he helped to investigate marine invertebrates. Studies at the University of Cambridge encouraged his passion for natural science. His five-year voyage on HMS Beagle established him as an eminent geologist whose observations and theories supported Charles Lyell's uniformitarian ideas, and publication of his journal of the voyage made him famous as a popular author.
Philip Cary Plait, Ph.D. (a.k.a. The Bad Astronomer) is an American astronomer and skeptic who runs the website BadAstronomy.com. He formerly worked at the physics and astronomy department at Sonoma State University. In early 2007, he resigned from his job to write Death from the Skies. On August 4, 2008, he became President of the James Randi Educational Foundation. He served in that position until January 1, 2010, when he was succeeded by noted skeptic D. J. Grothe.
Plait grew up in the Washington, D.C. area. He received his Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of Virginia in 1994 with a thesis on SN 1987A, which he studied with the Supernova Intensive Study (SINS). He first worked with the COBE satellite and then with the STIS on the Hubble Space Telescope for five years. He currently resides in Boulder, Colorado and writes full time, but often hosts special events and serves as an adviser and commentator in several capacities, including events focusing on skepticism, such as SkeptiCamp.
Jesse Walker (born September 4, 1970) is managing editor of Reason magazine. The University of Michigan alumnus has written the book Rebels on the Air: An Alternative History of Radio in America (NYU Press, 2001) and maintains a blog called The Perpetual Three-Dot Column. His articles have appeared in a number of publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Salon, The New Republic, L.A. Weekly, Chronicles, and No Depression. His writings display a definite libertarian bent.
Martin Gardner (October 21, 1914 – May 22, 2010) was an American popular mathematics and science writer specializing in recreational mathematics, but with interests encompassing micromagic, stage magic, literature (especially the writings of Lewis Carroll and G.K. Chesterton), philosophy, scientific skepticism, and religion. He wrote the Mathematical Games column in Scientific American from 1956 to 1981 and the Notes of a Fringe-Watcher column in Skeptical Inquirer from 1983 to 2002 and published almost 100 books.
I just play all the time and am fortunate enough to get paid for it.
Gardner, son of a petroleum geologist, grew up in and around Tulsa, Oklahoma. He showed an early interest in puzzles and games and his closest childhood friend, John Bennett Shaw, later became "the greatest of all collectors of Sherlockian memorabilia". He attended the University of Chicago (UC) where he earned his bachelor's degree in philosophy in 1936. Early jobs included reporter on the Tulsa Tribune, writer at the UC Office of Press Relations and case worker in Chicago's Black Belt for the city's Relief Administration. During World War II, he served for several years in the U.S. Navy as a yeoman on board the destroyer escort USS Pope (DE-134) in the Atlantic. His ship was still in the Atlantic when the war came to an end with the surrender of Japan in August 1945.
James Joseph Lippard (born 1965) is an American skeptic and activist freethinker who has written and spoken widely.
Lippard works for Global Crossing as its head of information security.
He founded the Phoenix Skeptics in 1985 and was its executive director until 1988, and edited The Arizona Skeptic from 1991-1993. He is the former president (2003-2005) of the Internet Infidels and former webmaster for the Skeptics Society (1994 to 1997).
Lippard is the author of The Fabulous Prophecies of the Messiah on the Secular Web, and a contributor to Ed Babinski's Leaving the Fold: Testimonies of Former Fundamentalists, to Joe Nickell's Psychic Sleuths: ESP and Sensational Cases, Gordon Stein's Encyclopedia of the Paranormal, and to Skeptic magazine and Reports of the National Center for Science Education.