Belle de Jour is the pen name of Brooke Magnanti, a UK-based writer and science researcher. Interests: whisky, taphonomy, PGP encryption.

I'll be presenting on the Privacy and Security panel talk at the Desiree Alliance conference in Las Vegas on the 26th! Hope to see you there.

Upcoming and recent events:

• At Flamingo London's Big Ideas Breakfast, July 12th at Home House.
  
• At Femina Potens in San Francisco on 17 & 18 July
  
• On privacy & security panel at Desiree Alliance in Vegas
  
• Speaking on chance and luck on Friday, 13 August with Science Brain Waves at St George's Lecture Theatre, Sheffield
  
• Podcast of Westminster Skeptics talk on 07 June,
  also the slides