Godspeed, John Glenn: 50 Years of Americans in Orbit
On February 20, 1962, perched atop an Atlas rocket, John Glenn was blasted into space at 17,500 miles per hour. […]
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My 25 Mundane Neutrino Explanations
Today I had the most fun I’ve ever had on Twitter, thanks to the OPERA experiment working out of CERN,
My Love Affair with Space
On the eve of the final mission of NASA’s – and the nation’s – 30-year-long space shuttle program, I present to you a video love letter – my newest piece for Time Magazine’s website, wherein Tara and I journey to Florida to witness our first launch, Discovery’s last.
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Lunar Eclipse Defined by Wikipedia
In celebration of today’s lunar eclipse, Google‘s logo features an animated moon. When you click through, as usual, you get a
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Rooster T. Feathers in Sunnyvale
Science comedy fans, unite! For one evening in Sunnyvale, California! 8pm, Wednesday, May 11, 2011. An evening of science comedy
Robots Attack! My new Singularity video on Time.com
I have a new video up on Time.com about the Singularity. If you don’t know what it is… find out
Shows, Spontaneous Emissions
Upcoming San Francisco Shows
Science Comedian Street Team: Activate! Please forward via email, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, telegraph, semaphore, smoke signals, and telepathy. I have
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SF Sketchfest
8pm, Wednesday, January 26th, 2011 – Eureka Theatre, San Francisco Sketchfest is an amazing annual event – actually three weeks
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Synthetic Biology Conference
Feb. 3-4, 2011 – Synthetic Biology conference held at Google’s Washington, D.C. offices I am participating in a synthetic biology
Bad Science in Star Wars
FORA.tv has a short video of me performing at the recent Wonderfest science festival in Berkeley. I’m talking about bad