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Audio: Alien Conspiracy Panel at CONvergence 2014

by Nicole Gugliucci • July 18, 2014 • 2 Comments

A few weeks ago, I had an amazing time at CONvergence, a science fiction and fantasy convention in Minneapolis, MN. It has also become the home con of a smaller, sort of embedded con, SkepchickCon. As an occasionally elapsed but…

by Nicole Gugliucci • October 18, 2012 • 3 Comments

With the hiatus from travel, I’m actually getting some things done around here, including blogging! I wrote a piece for Discovery Space News on hidden black holes and shared my experience as a skeptic on a ghost hunt over on…

by Nicole Gugliucci • May 16, 2012 • 4 Comments

Few days… Few weeks. Okay, I’m back. I just moved to the Midwest to start my new job as a post-doc working with CosmoQuest as informal education lead. Woo hoo! My apartment is only partly unpacked, my office just getting…

by Nicole Gugliucci • December 16, 2011 • 3 Comments

I woke up to the news that Christopher Hitchens has died. Well, that sucks. Controversial and ornery though he could be, he was also a superb writer, thinker, and pusher-of-boundaries. So, in his honor, I’ve dug up an old post…

by Nicole Gugliucci • November 15, 2011 • 0 Comments

Even though it’s been a few weeks, I still want to bring attention to some of the interesting stuff on the internet that has caught my attention… Earth had a visitor of the rocky kind in YU55 which passed within…

by Nicole Gugliucci • September 26, 2011 • 2 Comments

Waking up is hard to do… My sleep schedule is bizarre. However! I still have my favorite links and stories from the week to share…

by Nicole Gugliucci • September 22, 2011 • 7 Comments

Last night, at 11:08PM EDT, Troy Davis was executed by the state of Georgia, despite local and international outcry. Today is one of those days where I really don’t like being a part of humanity. So, let me get this…

by Nicole Gugliucci • September 8, 2011 • 2 Comments

… says Derek Colanduno, director of the massive sci-fi/fantasy/geek convention’s Skeptic Track. “It’s other people’s Halloween,” quips biologist and evolution defender Eugenie Scott. Frankly, it’s a little bit of both. Not enough candy, mind you, unless you really enjoy Tuaca…

by Nicole Gugliucci • August 31, 2011 • 0 Comments

Hello, dear astronomy enthusiasts and friends and followers and encirclers… This month has been heavy on GET STUFF DONE, but I’m taking a much needed break this weekend for Dragon*Con in Atlanta. This is the East Coast’s biggest sci-fi, fantasy,…

by Nicole Gugliucci • June 20, 2011 • 4 Comments

And all the planning and craziness leading up to today is over. Let the adventure begin! I’m heading to South Africa to work on The Precision Array to Probe the Epoch of Reionization, aka PAPER, aka the project on which…