Marc Abrahams to Be Science Guest of Honor Cascadia Con, Seattle NASFiC in 2005

Cascadia Con is proud to announce the selection of Marc Abrahams as our Science Guest of Honor. Marc is the editor and co-founder of the Annals of Improbable Research, founder and master of ceremonies of the annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony at Harvard University, and a weekly columnist for the British newspaper The Guardian.

Cascadia Con is proud to announce the selection of Marc Abrahams as our Science Guest of Honor. Marc is the editor and co-founder of the Annals of Improbable Research, founder and master of ceremonies of the annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony at Harvard University, and a weekly columnist for the British newspaper The Guardian. Abrahams has a degree in applied mathematics from Harvard and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has spent years of his life helping people to first laugh then think" about science. The Ig Noble awards are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative, and spur people's interest in science".

With Seattle being the initial home to the grunge" movement it seems somehow appropriate to have a scientist who The Washington Post called "the nation's guru of academic grunge." Marc is wildly popular as he talks about strange research in science, medicine, and technology.

Marc's biography can be found at
http://www.improb.com/navstrip/airshows/airshows.html#marc

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Cascadia Con, the 2005 North American Science Fiction Convention
Seattle NASFiC, Box 1066, Seattle, WA 98111
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