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December 7th, 2024 |
Session Proposals
The final schedule for SkeptiCamp NYC 2024 has not been finalized, yet. It should be published a week or two before the event. The Program Guide will follow some days after.
The following sessions have not, yet, been approved to be on the schedule. And, of course, they are subject to change, since they are merely proposals.
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Bill Chapman |
Report From the Climate Debate |
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Bill Chapman has been very active in the climate debate since 2016, the first time he gave a Skepticamp presentation on the subject. He has travelled to DC over half a dozen times to attend conferences and lobby congress on climate. Bill has been specializing in outreach to conservatives, which is, to say the least, an uphill battle.
The debate has evolved over the years, and Bill would like to comment on the current state of affairs. |
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Mitchell Lampert |
Ancient Secrets of the Great Pyramids Revealed! (Spoiler Alert: It Was NOT Aliens.) |
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We might not know everything about how the ancient pyramids of Egypt were built, historically speaking. But, archeologists actually know quite a bit more than most people realize, about its possible methods of construction! Enough knowledge that we mere humans probably could rebuild them today, if we had to, using ONLY the tools available 4,000 years ago!
Of course, we would have to settle on one of several competing ideas for its assembly process, first. (I would root for the Internal Ramp Theory, but I suspect I might be outvoted on that one.) Then we would have to convince 20,000+ people, at a time, to commit to the excessively dangerous labor of doing so, over the course of several decades. But, other than that: it should be a piece of cake!
This talk will offer a brief overview of some of that knowledge; and why it is pointless to assert aliens into the picture, anymore.
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