Sword Swallower Dan Meyer

Just getting ready to catch my flight to Amsterdam in the Netherlands in a few minutes.

If the volcanic ash is not too bad, I hope to land in Amsterdam on Saturday and spend the weekend there. Then on Monday, I will be traveling to the little Dutch village of Zeist, for a VERY special occasion!

I have been honored to speak at the 11th annual prestigious PINC Conference (PINC stands for People, Ideas, Nature, and Creativity). PINC is like a European version of the well-known TED conference, and the PINC board has invited me along with a small number of other speakers to speak on “out of the box” type topics… like SWORD SWALLOWING! What a HUGE honor! I am really looking forward to this trip and to meeting the other speakers!

Here’s a link to PINC.11

It looks like they have some other interesting speakers and entrepreneurs there as well! I am looking forward to meeting all of them!

After PINC, on Wednesday I will be heading to Rotterdam where I will be speaking at Erasmus University Medical Center with my friends Erwin Kompanje and Kees Moeliker, both fellow Ig Nobel speakers themselves. This should be a fun talk for the doctors and nurses in the area, as this is one of the aspects of my job that I really LOVE!

From Wednesday to Saturday, I will be visiting the Rotterdam Natural History Museum, the Rotterdam Zoo, the Kinderdijk Windmills, and the floating Noah’s Ark replica and museum that is on exhibit in Vianen in the Netherlands! And it looks like I will be doing some media interviews in various magazines, newspapers, and even the TOP Dutch TV show in the Netherlands!

Should be a fun trip!

If you’re on Twitter, please follow me for live updates: @Halfdan

Looking forward to keeping in touch with you, and if you’re in the Netherlands, I’m looking forward to meeting you!

Tot ziens!

Dan
http://danmeyer.tel

Had a great time at Freedom Experience in Texarkana… Had a blast and met lots of great folks there!

Here’s some behind-the-scenes footage of my friend awesome illusionist Brock Gill watching my show from backstage at Freedom Experience in Texarkana.

Have Sword Will Travel - Sword Swallowing at Freedom Experience, Texarkana

And here’s a girl pulling the sword out of my stomach….

If you were in Texarkana, make sure to follow me on Twitter!

Then I had a wonderful time in several areas throughout Denmark - Aarhus, Odense, Copenhagen, Kerteminde, and more. Here is a clip from Danish TV of one of our Ig Nobel lecture shows at University of South Denmark in Odense, Denmark:

Looking forward to Freedom Experience in Hattiesburg MS this Saturday! If you’re near Hattiesburg, come see us! http://www.freedomexperience.com

Wow! Had a VERY interesting weekend in Chicago last weekend at the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Convention.

The speaker slated to speak just before us (Ig Nobels) was none other than ex-VP Al Gore! Talk about an opening act!

Our Ig Nobel lecture series got quite a bit of press from the Science/Medical Journalists there (along with Al Gore!) Here are just a few reviews:

Chicago Reader

Physics World - Science Thats Hard to Swallow

Xinhuanet China

English

People

After we finished, Ig Founder Marc Abrahams and I walked a few blocks in the snow to Michigan Avenue, and I was honored to do an hour long interview with Nick Digilio and Andy Hermann on The Nick Digilio Show on WGN Radio. What an honor, as I had grown up listening to WGN only 26 miles away in Michigan City, IN. I didn’t realize it, but this show is broadcast to over 36 states including as far away as Texas and Chicago!

During the interview, Andy Hermann pulled a sword from my throat.

Dan Meyer swallowing a sword at WGN Radio

and I got to eat a lightbulb onair for the listengin audience. I think the lightbulb went over better on radio than the sword swallowing!… Watch and listen for yourself! Let me know what you think!