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 …
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 …
At the end of the Siftables session, I met Seth Raphael (also here), who was sitting two seats over from me. We also happen to be sharing a stage together tonight at the LateTech event – I’ll be doing science comedy and Seth presents “a new technological magic show.” In the three or four minutes …
Odyssey Moon is making a bid for the Google Lunar X Prize: From their website: Odyssey Moon is the first team to complete registration for the $30M Google Lunar X PRIZE competition. The company made its first public debut on December 6th, 2007, at the Space Investment Summit in San Jose, California, unveiling its …
The SciFoo experience begins before the first session – even before we get to the Googleplex (Get thee to the Googleplex!). There was the Wiki, as previously discussed, for first virtual encounters. Then SciFoo weekend arrived. On Friday afternoon, my taller half and I checked into the Wild Palms Hotel in Sunnyvale. Sadly, jealously, Tara …
While at Science Foo Camp 2008, I grabbed a few quick interviews for the Nature podcast, which was posted today on Nature.com. Just a few soundbites from attendees David Bauer, Brian Cox, Chris Patil, and Martin Rees. And a shout out to me. It’s the latest episode so, for now, you can find it here. …
[I’ve made one previous SciFoo post, in anticipation (and trepidation) of the approaching weekend.] Where to begin? How to capture the essence of such an overwhelming experience? Nature! O’Reilly! The Googleplex! 200 certified science geniuses! No less than four (4) Nobel Laureates! And other incomplete sentences! By design, Science Foo Camp has no real agenda …
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This is a helluva week. I’ve been promoting and preparing for my upcoming science comedy show at the San Francisco Punch Line: Rational Comedy for an Irrational Planet, Monday, August 11, 8pm, please come. But between now and Monday I have what promises to be one of the most memorable weekends of my life… Friday …