Science Comedy Video
A montage of some of my science comedy routines, taken mostly from two events at the Marian Koshland Science Museum […]
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Science Foo Camp 2008: Chapter 0
This is a helluva week. I’ve been promoting and preparing for my upcoming science comedy show at the San Francisco
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Why is the sky blue?
Once, when I was maybe ten years old, I asked my dad, “Why is the sky blue?” A pretty reasonable
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Yarmulke
I’m a Jew from Texas – a relatively rare breed, we can’t even propagate in the wild. So, before my
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Brian Malow on Edison, Cell Phones, Vista…
An excerpt from “The Final Frontier?” presentation I gave at the Marian Koshland Science Museum, in Washington, D.C., April 10,
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Too Much Sodium
My sister told me recently that she won’t eat Chinese food anymore because it has too much sodium. But isn’t
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Smoking in California
Both my parents smoked cigarettes while I was growing up, and I grew to dislike them (the cigarettes, not my
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Science Comedian on the Bob Rivers Show
Back in April, I was in Seattle, performing at the Mainstage Comedy and Music Club, a fantastic newer club, which
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Neal Stephenson on Jupiter Envy
“For a Westerner to trash Western culture is like criticizing our nitrogen/oxygen atmosphere on the grounds that it sometimes gets
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Why is there something instead of nothing?
For all that astronomers and physicists, philosophers and poets have learned about the universe since women and men first peered