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Fantastic Debates

September, 2011, I participated in an event at Fantastic Fest called the Fantastic Debates -- two rounds of debate followed by two rounds of boxing!  My opponent was a NASA conspiracy theorist who thought they were hiding aliens and had the secrets to free energy, but had never been to the moon.  

Also at the event:  a Hobbit fight between Elijah Wood and Dominic Monaghan, and a fight between Alamo Drafthouse founder Tim League and bareknuckle champion James Quinn McDonagh.  See photos below and video of some of the smack-talk and fight itself.

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Full video of the fight is to the right, and pictures are below.  Before the fight, I had no idea how big or good at fighting my opponent would be, so a postdoc working with me, Federica Bianco, trained me in boxing!  Little did I know my opponent was a foot shorter than me, and was about as good at boxing as he was at critical thinking.

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