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Morrigan
1st October 2010, 12:32 PM
http://www.mcgill.ca/science/trottier-symposium/

Saw this in the newsletter. Sounds cool, I'll probably attend. Any other fellow Québécois going? :)
Cynthia of Syracuse
1st October 2010, 01:05 PM
Je suis Vermontienne, but I'm going to try to get there.
ricklesgibson
5th October 2010, 10:39 PM
Maybe I'll drive up. It's only a few hours.
ve2vfd
6th October 2010, 08:03 AM
Just my luck.... Mr. Randi and Mr. Shermer are in town on a week I am out of town.... *sigh*

Oh well, I hope they enjoy our fine city!

Pat
Mojo
6th October 2010, 09:01 AM
And Drs. Goldacre and Gorski!
Hamradioguy
7th October 2010, 10:42 AM
I'll probably catch at least one of the two days- It's a shorter drive than going to Boston for me. And border crossing is far easier via road than air.
The Central Scrutinizer
7th October 2010, 11:32 AM
Damn. I'll still be in London. I've been looking for an excuse to visit Montreal. Never been there.
saganite
7th October 2010, 01:32 PM
Damn. I'll still be in London. I've been looking for an excuse to visit Montreal. Never been there.

Don't you have a boyfriend who lives there?
The Central Scrutinizer
7th October 2010, 01:36 PM
Don't you have a boyfriend who lives there?

I do!! I think you know him. :)
Morrigan
16th October 2010, 07:21 PM
Hmm, the event on Monday doesn't have much details on the location. 1000 Sherbrooke is a huge office building. I hope there are signs around showing which room it is. :)
Hamradioguy
19th October 2010, 09:21 PM
Quite the event. I caught the Randi lecture earlier this evening. The guy who introduced Randi said 850 were in the hall. I'm a bit skeptical (of course) that it was that many, but the place was packed with folks in the aisles and standing shoulder to shoulder along the back wall. Great talk and an enthusiastic audience.

Wonder if fellow Vermonter Cynthia got there?
Morrigan
20th October 2010, 01:28 AM
Yeah, the two events were quite good. I also snagged a copy of Shermer's Why People Believe Weird Things yesterday.

As always, Mr. Randi's lectures were educative, funny, insightful and entertaining all at once. :)

He brought up the fact that his last time in Montreal (or McGill U) was 15 years ago a few times and that he hopes to return "within the next 15 years". I wonder if it means that he feels he should have been invited more often, or what? :newlol
Hamradioguy
20th October 2010, 08:26 AM
Here talking about homeopathy. No way to get a sense of how packed the auditorium was without a fish-eye lens.