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Draft Program Grid
This is the Final draft program schedule for Eric Choi. There will undoubtably be changes after the fact. Please keep an eye out for notices of program changes at the Con. And have fun!
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| Day | Time | Title | Description | Participants | Room |
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| Saturday | 12:00pm | Why are Americans so ignorant/distrusting about science? | Only half of Americans believe humans evolved, only 53% know that electrons are smaller than atoms. Why do Americans not know more science and what can be done about it? Is Hollywood science part of the problem? What can be done to make Americans more knowledgeable about science? | Sam Scheiner (m), Eric Choi, Edward M. Lerner, James Morrow, J. J. Smith | Montrose |
| Saturday | 4:00pm | Even hard sf uses FTL | What science is taken for granted in SF and can it really happen? What new scientific discoveries are more likely than others? What science is underused in sf? | David Louis Edelman (m), Eric Choi, Michael Flynn, Edward M. Lerner, James Maxey | Montrose |
| Saturday | 7:00pm | No Trespassing in Space | What happened to the space program and how can we revive it? This year marks 40 years since the moon landing and the U.S. no longer can put a American in space. Why did the shuttle go wrong? Why did our space program fall so low and what can be done to reverse the decline? Did Flash Gordon get it right? | Tom Jackson King (m), Eric Choi, Michael Capobianco, Tad Daley, Yoji Kondo, Thomas McCabe | Plaza |
| Saturday | 8:00pm | The infodump and research | How do you research a book without it turning into a textbook? How much research is enough and how much do you need to show? What kind of detail? How do you reveal information without doing a boring infodump? Does it differ by genre? | Harry Turtledove (m), Eric Choi, J. J. Smith, Bud Sparhawk, Iver Cooper | Montrose |
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| Sunday | 10:00am | Reading | | Eric Choi | Twinbrook |
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