{"id":21177,"date":"2024-10-23T18:01:11","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T01:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/?p=21177"},"modified":"2024-11-01T15:10:37","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T22:10:37","slug":"done-watching-worldcon-2024-recordings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2024\/10\/23\/done-watching-worldcon-2024-recordings\/","title":{"rendered":"Done watching Worldcon 2024 recordings"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>This year\u2019s Worldcon provided a lot of programming that was viewable online, and many of those program items were recorded and made available for later playback. Those recordings will continue to be available to Worldcon members until the end of the year.<\/p>\r\n<p>As a result, I ended up watching part or all of 55 program items over the past two months, which is far more programming than I usually manage at a convention. I watched some of those in realtime, but most of them as recordings.<\/p>\r\n<p>I\u2019m not going to list everything I watched, but here are the ones I liked best, in alphabetical order by title:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n  <li>\u201cFighting Fungi in Space\u201d: Presentation about the International Space Station\u2019s \u201cmicrobiome, the challenges it poses to our aspirations to travel through space, and some of the surprising ways that science is fighting back.\u201d<\/li>\r\n  <li>\u201cThe Future of Birth: Obstetrics and Science Fiction\u201d: Presentation about \u201cdepictions of birth and pregnancy in science fiction from the perspective of a practising obstetrician and a gaze into the future of human reproduction via the exciting developments in pregnancy care today.\u201d Content warning for various things about pregnancy and birth.<\/li>\r\n  <li>\u201cHomelessness in Genre Fiction\u201d: This panel turned out to be more about homelessness in the real world than in genre fiction, but that was fine with me.<\/li>\r\n  <li>\u201cThrough an African Lens\u201d: Four African writers talking about sf, especially sf by African writers.<\/li>\r\n  <li>\u201cUsing Nanomedicines to Improve Our Health\u2014Small Yet Mighty\u201d: Presentation about Lipid nanoparticles (LNPs), which are the delivery vehicles for mRNA in mRNA vaccines. (If I understood right.) Unfortunately, a significant chunk seems to be missing from the middle of the recording\u2014there\u2019s a skip at around 08:40, where as much as 15 minutes might be missing.<\/li>\r\n  <li>\u201cWriting Diasporas in SFF\u201d: I think there wasn\u2019t a lot here that I hadn\u2019t seen in previous diaspora-related panels at other conventions, but I nonetheless thought it was a good solid interesting panel.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>\u2026I\u2019m surprised that three of my favorites were one-person presentations about science topics\u2014I don\u2019t often attend that sort of thing at conventions, but I enjoyed these.<\/p>\r\n<hr width=\"25%\" \/>\r\n<p>(One advantage of the common approach where recordings stop being available soon after a convention is that I can give up on them quickly\u2014as soon as they\u2019re no longer available, I can put them behind me and move on to other things.<\/p>\r\n<p>But even so, I did really appreciate all of these recordings being left up for an extended period. It was neat to get to see so much programming, without having to cram it all into one weekend.)<\/p>\r\n<hr width=\"25%\" \/>\r\n<p>(This entry was originally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jed.hartman\/posts\/pfbid034KezMCMKkGodX4aQuYwVNYuva7pLhtzSJeZBQeG3dZipgjMpFC2e8dGVQHgMhCrul\">posted on Facebook<\/a> on October 8, 2024.)<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched 55 of the recorded panels and presentations from this year\u2019s Worldcon; here are my six favorites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,54,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conventions","category-science","category-speculative-fiction"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21178,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21177\/revisions\/21178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}