The San Francisco Chronicle ran a feature story on me today (the print version actually appears in the Datebook section, Sunday, January 11, 2009): Making Science Funny: Brian Malow It’s written by Nick Thomas, who we love! Last year, Nick did a Q&A with me for Nature: Helium Walks Into a Bar In addition to …
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This weekend, the San Francisco Chronicle should be running a story about me in conjunction with next week’s shows at the SF Punch Line Comedy Club (Tues, Jan.13) and Rooster T. Feathers (Wed, Jan.14), in Sunnyvale. See Upcoming Shows for details. A Chronicle photographer, Paul Chinn, met me over at the new California Academy of …
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. …
Dr. Richard Harrington, vice-president of the UK’s Royal Entomological Society, bought a fossilized insect on eBay and it turned out to be a previously unknown species of aphid. He bought the insect, which was encased in a 40-50 million-year-old piece of amber, for £20 (about $37). “It’s a rather unusual route to come by (a …
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…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 …
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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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“Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available.” – Gregory Benford‘s law of controversy (an adage from his 1980 novel Timescape).
My mother used to tell me to “stand up straight.” It was one of her favorite things to say: “Stand up straight!” Many other people, I have discovered, also grew up hearing that phrase. It’s nearly universal. As if mothers were programmed to say it. In fact, I believe mothers have been telling their children …
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 …