I’ve been writing up my notes from Science Foo Camp, anxious to get something online about the unconference that ended a week ago already, and from which I’m still on a serious high. Meanwhile… symmetry breaking has a new review of my “Rational Comedy for an Irrational Planet” show. symmetry breaking is a blog supplement …
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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.
Once, when I was maybe ten years old, I asked my dad, “Why is the sky blue?” A pretty reasonable question for a little ten-year-old scientist. But he wasn’t in the mood. He said, “Go ask your mother.” And I thought: Great, she knows. I turned from my dad, and headed toward the kitchen, knowing …
For all that astronomers and physicists, philosophers and poets have learned about the universe since women and men first peered out of those tiny holes in our skulls, we are still no closer to answering perhaps the most fundamental cosmological question of all: Why is there something instead of nothing? But I have my own …