Because it's a FAQ: I won't be at the San Diego Comic Con this year, but I will be at Dragon*Con. For the past few years, Discover Magazine has hosted an increasingly popular and extremely fun panel on Science and Science Fiction at Comic Con, which I've been honored to moderate. Unfortunately, this year we won't be doing the panel, so I won't be attending. I'm sad, but we'll be there next year for sure. I hate to miss such a huge geekapalooza, but we'll have to figure out some way to make the 2012 panel extra-awesome. I'm thinking the panelists will skydive in. Or we'll fight with bat'leths. Something.
In better news, I'll be at Dragon*Con on September 1-5. In fact, I'll be at the becoming-an-annual-event star party on Thursday night, September 1, where we raise money for cancer research. D*C has a very strong skeptic track, and I'll ...