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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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
In conjunction with the COPUS Project’s Year of Science – and the March theme of Physics and Technology – I offer up a bit of humor on bad website usability on the Jet Blue website and also a couple thoughts on cell phones – loud users and shrinking sizes. Do you think we’ll live to …
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 …
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 …
If you don’t already know, let me be the first to tell you: 2009 is the Year of Science! It’s the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species and the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin. Abraham Lincoln was also born on the exact same day (and year) as …
Year of Science – January – Why is the sky blue? Read More »
…Basement Universes aren’t just for basements any more! The Galactomatic-1000 comes with an attractive imitation wood-grain negative-matter case that makes it perfectly at home in your den or family room. The case reduces its total mass to zero, so you won’t have to worry about imploding your house into a black hole, or discoloring the …
[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 …
Science Foo Camp 2008: Chapter 1 – The Wiki & What I Missed Read More »