My talk at ASU last night (poster below) was live-streamed, so although there was an overflow crowd, lot of other people apparently watched it on the livestream feed. I thought it went well, and, surprisingly, there was virtually no hostility from the audience, either in their reactions when I said things like “we must loosen […]
As I’ve announced previously, I’m talking tomorrow at Appalachian State University in Boone North Carolina. (I arrive today but am devoting the afternoon to sightseeing and noms.) The talk, on my book, evolution, and American resistance to evolution (which touches on religion), will start at 7 p.m. Thursday in Plemmons Student Union’s Blue Ridge Ballroom. […]
A week from today, on May 2 at 7 p.m., I’ll be talking about the message of my book (and some about religion) at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina (yes, it was named after Daniel Boone). You can see the announcement here for details and the venue. I’m excited to be going for […]
A reminder: this Wednesday and Thursday I’ll be giving two talks at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana: a research seminar on Wednesday and the John S. Karling Distinguished Lecture (announcement here) on Thursday afternoon. The research seminar, “Two flies on an island: Speciation in Drosophila,”will be on Wednesday, April 17, 3:30 pm in MJIS […]
I’m speaking tomorrow at noon at Oakland University in Michigan, and readers in that area are invited to come. It will be a general talk on the evidence for evolution and the religious opposition to it. The announcement can be found here, and the gist is this: Jerry Coyne: Why Evolution is True Join us […]
Alert reader barenormality called my attention to what looks very much like another TEDx quackery-and-woo event in West Hollywood, California, on April 14. I am not making this up: April’s TEDx West Hollywood conference is called “Brother, can you spare a paradigm: making the quantum leap.” And the description is just as bad as you’d […]
Don’t say that I’m not responsive to reader questions! Several people, while happy about TEDx’s sequestering pseudoscience talks like that of Rupert “Can-dogs-find-their-way-home” Sheldrake, also wanted to know what TEDx will do from now on to prevent the flogging of pseudoscience. I posed that question to Emily McManus, editor of TED.com, and here is her reply, […]
The organizers of TEDx have decided to remove the talks of Rupert Sheldrake (discussed here) and Graham Hancock (discussed here) from the TEDx YouTube channel and put them on a separate page. This is a victory for good science and a defeat for fulminating woo. TEDx’s decision, published here, is this: After due diligence, including […]
Well, TED has come down a long ways since it once presented a forum for quirky, advanced, and entertaining thinkers. In an effort to keep ahead of the intellectual tide, they’ve started incorporating substandard speakers, including woomeisters, and have spawned “TEDx,” local versions of TED talks. Those, too, reached their nadir with a TEDx talk […]
I bow before the awesomeness of the man assigned to guard me in Georgia. He was a tough dude, and I cowered before him as he towered over me. On to Clemson! h/t: Pradeep Satyaprakash
