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Dr Jack Cohen, currently at the University of Warwick, is an internationally renowned reproductive biologist and science fiction alien design consultant. His talks are a popular event at SF cons, where he always has something novel, provocative, and biological, to say.

You can't free mink, they don't understand freedom. I could give you your freedom by stripping you naked and leaving you on top of one of the Pennines in midwinter. It would be the same!

-- to an animal liberationist

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Jack has very many talks -- but only one set of slides!

-- from the Intro to Credible Aliens...

Cohen's Law: 'Unless you fail at more than 10% of the things you try, you aren't trying enough things.'

-- promulgated at an unidentified SF Con

SF Convention talks

Here are some notes on Jack Cohen's talks that I've heard at various SF cons. (Later talks tend to have more notes.)

Designing Aliens. Interaction 2005 Worldcon
Medical Hazards of Space. Interaction 2005 Worldcon (panel)
The Science of Discworld, the Magic of Roundworld. Reconvene '99 Eastercon
Latex Abuse in Babylon 5. Reconvene '99 Eastercon (panel)
Credible Aliens... B5 Wrap Party
...and What They Do to Each Other B5 Wrap Party
I Sing the Body Eclectic. Intuition '98 Eastercon (panel)
Just How Likely are Alien Minds? Intuition '98 Eastercon
GoH talk. Evolution '96 Eastercon
Tall Technical Tales. Evolution '96 Eastercon (panel)
Redesigning the Human Body for Fun and Fornication. Glasgow 95 Worldcon, Evolution '96 Eastercon.
Sex, Complex and Multiplex. Sou'Wester Eastercon '94
Genes Don't Make People or Aliens. Eastcon '90
Concepts, Copouts and Confusion. Seacon '84
On Its Knees Man, Not on Your Back, Dearie. Seacon '84

Other talks

Keynote address: The Human Mind as an Emergent Phenomenon: The Complicit Coevolution of Intelligence and Extelligence