For the next few weeks I will be guest host of Dr. Kiki’s Science Hour on Leo Laporte’s TWiT network. Dr. Kiki is out on maternity leave, having just given birth to a beautiful baby boy 20 days ago! Previous guest hosts have included Phil Plait, David Harris, and Jeri Ellsworth. The show streams live …
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Jan. 13-16, 2011 – ScienceOnline2011, Research Triangle Park, NC I’m thrilled to be attending and participating in ScienceOnline2011 – the fifth annual conference on science and the web in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. My first time! I’ll be leading a session with Joanne Manaster on communicating science with humor, and I’ll be speaking/performing at …
Feb. 3-4, 2011 – Synthetic Biology conference held at Google’s Washington, D.C. offices I am participating in a synthetic biology conference called “Here Be Dragons: Governing a Technologically Uncertain Future.” Stellar cast of speakers from science AND science fiction: Drew Endy, Andrew Hessel, George Church, Robert J. Sawyer, Neal Stephenson, Bruce Sterling, Robert Wright, and …
I will be speaking at SkeptiCal 2010, the Northern California Science & Skepticism Conference in Berkeley, April 24. Other speakers include Eugenie Scott, Seth Shostak, Kirsten Sanford, Brian Dunning, and more. See the list of speakers. Date: Saturday, April 24, 2010. 9AM to 6PM. Location: Brower Center, Berkeley, California. Sponsors: Bay Area Skeptics and Sacramento-Area …
A couple of the presentations at today’s “Let’s Have An Awesome Time Doing Science” conference were conducted via Skype video. Uri Alon of the Department of Molecular Cell Biology & Department of Physics of Complex Systems at the Weizmann Institute in Israel, gave a particularly fun presentation entitled, “Peace Love Science Happiness.” He performed his …
One of the many highlights of the Emerging Technology conference was the Wednesday evening performance of Zoe Keating: “Using a 17th Century Instrument to Create the Music of the 21st Century.” Zoe uses a cello and a laptop to make beautiful multilayered music. She plays with herself. It’s loopy. Very cool. Excuse the rough camera …