In celebration of today’s lunar eclipse, Google‘s logo features an animated moon. When you click through, as usual, you get a page of related search results. A little while ago, one of the top results included a surprising definition of “lunar eclipse” from Wikipedia: According to Wikipedia: Lunar eclipse: A lunar eclipse is when the moon …
FORA.tv has a short video of me performing at the recent Wonderfest science festival in Berkeley. I’m talking about bad science in science fiction movies, and the example in the clip is a classic moment from Star Wars… Link to video on YouTube Link to video on FORA.tv
Sunday, November 7, 2010. Once again I am thrilled to be performing at Wonderfest – the Bay Area’s long-running festival of science. This is their 12th annual event – and my third time participating. As always, it’s a 2-day event – Saturday on the Stanford campus and Sunday on the Berkeley campus. I am only …
Somehow this didn’t make it into the blog earlier – our Time.com video about helium. A flight in a zeppelin, a visit with the Balloon Lady, and the end of an era?… Related Post: Science Comedian Riffs on Hydrogen and Helium at Ignite
Oops… I must’ve taken a wrong turn at Arcturus… From the Wikipedia entry on Vega: Vega is the brightest star in the constellation Lyra, the fifth brightest star in the night sky and the second brightest star in the northern celestial hemisphere, after Arcturus. It is a relatively nearby star at only 25.3 light-years from Earth, …
When I attended the University of Texas, in Austin, back in the last century, I took a few astronomy classes and the most interesting one was called “Astronomy in Science Fiction.” Through the fog of memory that sits like interstellar dust between me and Total Recall, I can only say with a level of certainty …
There’s a new Q&A with me up at The Manitoban – the inventively-named official student newspaper of the University of Manitoba, in Canada. Student journalist Trevor Bekolay contacted me two weeks ago, intending to write a short article about science and humor (or “humour,” as he calls it) but, after transcribing our telephone conversation, he …
Oops. I think I took a wrong turn…
Mike Brotherton has a really nice blog post about me. Mike is a science fiction writer who also happens to be an associate professor at the University of Wyoming in the department of Physics and Astronomy. Quasars are his specialty! And there’s a lot of great content in his blog. Check it out. I’m ecstatic …