Why is the sky blue?
Once, when I was maybe ten years old, I asked my dad, “Why is the sky blue?” A pretty reasonable […]
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Yarmulke
I’m a Jew from Texas – a relatively rare breed, we can’t even propagate in the wild. So, before my
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Brian Malow on Edison, Cell Phones, Vista…
An excerpt from “The Final Frontier?” presentation I gave at the Marian Koshland Science Museum, in Washington, D.C., April 10,
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Too Much Sodium
My sister told me recently that she won’t eat Chinese food anymore because it has too much sodium. But isn’t
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Smoking in California
Both my parents smoked cigarettes while I was growing up, and I grew to dislike them (the cigarettes, not my
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Total Eclipse of Sun Videotaped from Airplane
I found a cool video of August 1’s total eclipse of the sun – videotaped from an airplane at 27,000
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Q: Do androids dream of electric sheep? A: Only the ones from the Deep South. The others dream of electric
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Linus Pauling on Ideas
The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas. – Linus Pauling
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Science Comedian on the Bob Rivers Show
Back in April, I was in Seattle, performing at the Mainstage Comedy and Music Club, a fantastic newer club, which
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Neal Stephenson on Jupiter Envy
“For a Westerner to trash Western culture is like criticizing our nitrogen/oxygen atmosphere on the grounds that it sometimes gets