{"id":534,"date":"2009-10-06T11:54:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T11:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2009\/10\/06\/monsters-from-the-deep\/"},"modified":"2009-10-06T11:54:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-06T11:54:00","slug":"monsters-from-the-deep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2009\/10\/06\/monsters-from-the-deep\/","title":{"rendered":"MONSTERS FROM THE DEEP!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_M3KcDDpUUfo\/Ssy72mDUNaI\/AAAAAAAAAXM\/v4rK1FbGrLA\/s1600-h\/architeuthis04.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand;width: 239px;height: 381px\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_M3KcDDpUUfo\/Ssy72mDUNaI\/AAAAAAAAAXM\/v4rK1FbGrLA\/s400\/architeuthis04.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>SUGGESTIONS AS TO HOW TO PUBLICIZE THIS EVENT, PLEASE! And do please pass info on to anyone you think might be interested. It should be great but am concerned we won&#8217;t get the audience it merits.<\/p>\n<p>SPES\/CFIUK present:<br \/><span style=\"font-weight:bold\">MONSTERS FROM THE DEEP!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style:italic\">An interactive skeptical odyssey \u2013 with sound effects! University experts investigate tales of sea-monsters, mermaids, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Saturday, 7th November, 11am-3pm (with break for lunch) Just \u00a310. Free to members of cfi uk, glha, spes, bha, new humanist and Skeptic mag subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>Ever wondered if there is some truth to sailors\u2019 tales of monsters from the ocean\u2019s depths? <\/p>\n<p>Dr Charles Paxton, a scientist from the University of St Andrews, is one of the country\u2019s most qualified cryptozoologists, and he will be running both a lecture <span style=\"font-style:italic\">and workshop<\/span> on monsters from the deep \u2013 mythical and real. Dr Darren Naish is a researcher at The University of Portsmouth, who will talk about the \u2018prehistoric survivor paradigm\u2019 and what it means (or doesn\u2019t mean) for \u2019sea monster\u2019 sightings. An interactive skeptical odyssey\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>Venue: Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, Holborn, London WC1R 4RL \u2013 Main Hall. Book by sending a cheque with names of attendees to Suresh Lalvani, Ex Director CFIUK, PO Box 49097, Centre for Inquiry, London N11 9AX. Or use paypal \u2013 hit \u201cSupport cfiuk\u201d button at www.cfiuk.org and follow instructions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SUGGESTIONS AS TO HOW TO PUBLICIZE THIS EVENT, PLEASE! And do please pass info on to anyone you think might be interested. It should be great but am concerned we won&#8217;t get the audience it merits. SPES\/CFIUK present:MONSTERS FROM THE DEEP! An interactive skeptical odyssey \u2013 with sound effects! University experts investigate tales of sea-monsters, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}