My Capricon 33 Schedule

[beamjockey]

I'll be at Capricon 33 in Wheeling, Illinois this weekend, having attended thirty-two Capricons previously.

Science Reporting Sucks Rocks
Friday, 02-08-2013
11:30 am to 1:00 pm
Botanic Garden A

Correlation is not causation! Every day, the news butchers articles about health, climate change, and technological advancements. Science literacy

Comments

[ritaxis]

I wish I was going!

[selidor]

I'd never have thought of calling them riverworlds, but it makes perfect sense. (I honestly think of them both as iceworlds; mental categorisation can be funny)...

[stickmaker]

In my slightly over half a century of life, I can't ever recall seeing a high degree of scientific literacy among either the press or the general public.

I recall Ronald Florence - in _The Perfect Machine_, his book on the Hale telescope - talking about how the press of the late Thirties kept referring to the mirror as a "lens." Also how, after the telescope finally became operational in the late Forties, tourists and dignitaries would come in, look at the top of the telescope, see nothing but air and ask where "The Big Eye" was.

Then there were the newspaper reviews of "A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes."

[serge_lj]

I can't make it, alas. Do you have plans for such panels at this year's worldcon?

[apostle_of_eris]

AI Vision
If surrealism aims at the transformation of mind and all that resembles it, and the point of AI is to resemble mind, then . . .
(I want to keep passing this around until someone does something interesting with it.)