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
The San Francisco Chronicle ran a feature story on me today (the print version actually appears in the Datebook section, Sunday, January 11, 2009): Making Science Funny: Brian Malow It’s written by Nick Thomas, who we love! Last year, Nick did a Q&A with me for Nature: Helium Walks Into a Bar In addition to …
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“I am at two with Nature.” – Woody Allen * * * Unlike Woody, today I am at one with Nature… the magazine, anyway. One page of it. There’s a short Q&A with me in the current issue of Nature. The writer/interviewer is Nick Thomas, who is not only a chemistry professor but also an …
I noticed a long time ago, whenever my mother would lose weight, my father would gain weight. And when my father lost weight, my mother gained weight. It was like the Conservation of Mass, within our family. Being the young scientist that I was, I developed a theory to explain the facts: You see, you …
A montage of some of my science comedy routines, taken mostly from two events at the Marian Koshland Science Museum of the National Academy of Sciences (in 2006 and 2007). A couple clips from my 2008 performance appear earlier in this blog (on cell phones and Karma) and more are coming soon.
I’m a Jew from Texas – a relatively rare breed, we can’t even propagate in the wild. So, before my migration to Northern California – which is counter to the eastward migratory pattern characteristic of my kind – a migration which, over time, deposits us in the Sunshine State like calcium carbonate on a stalagmite …
“For a Westerner to trash Western culture is like criticizing our nitrogen/oxygen atmosphere on the grounds that it sometimes gets windy, and besides, Jupiter’s is much prettier. You may not realize its advantages until you’re trying to breathe liquid methane.” – Neal Stephenson Это позволит более удачные стратегии. Наборы символов также наблюдать за их картинкам …