[extropy-chat] FWD (SK) Postscript to "Fabulous Prophecies"; SHARE fund for tsunami relief; Skeptics Society conference

[Terry W. Colvin]

Some miscellany:

1.  I've published a postscript to my "Fabulous Prophecies of the
Messiah" at the Secular Web responding to some critics:
   
http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/jim_lippard/fabulous-prophecies.html#postscript

2.  The Center for Inquiry has set up a tsunami relief fund called
Secular Humanist Aid and Relief Effort (SHARE) to donate the funds to
a charity in Sri Lanka recommended by Arthur C. Clarke.  The Internet
Infidels has made a donation and has a link on the front page of the
Secular Web (http://www.infidels.org), though that donation link seems
to be temporarily not working and the Center for Inquiry's website
(http://www.centerforinquiry.net) suggests to send checks by mail.

3.  Shermer's Skeptics Society conference will be held again this May
13-15 at Caltech on the subject "Brain, Mind, and Consciousness."
Featured speakers include John Allman, Susan Blackmore, Richard
McNally, Stephen Quartz, V. S. Ramachandran (author of _Phantoms in
the Brain_), Ursula Goodenough, Alison Gopnik, Hank Schlinger, Terry
Sejnowski, Christoph Koch, Paul Zak, and special guest Michael
Crichton (which should be quite interesting since he's a believer in
the paranormal); there will also be magic and illusions from Jerry
Andrus, Bob Friedhoffer, and Mark Edward, and James Randi will be on
the bill for 30 minutes before Crichton.  I've already registered and
would enjoy meeting list members there.  You can register at
http://www.skeptic.com.

-- 
Jim Lippard


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