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.
This is a helluva week. I’ve been promoting and preparing for my upcoming science comedy show at the San Francisco Punch Line: Rational Comedy for an Irrational Planet, Monday, August 11, 8pm, please come. But between now and Monday I have what promises to be one of the most memorable weekends of my life… Friday …
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 …
I’m a Jew from Texas – a relatively rare breed, we can’t even propagate in the wild. So, before my migration to Northern California – which is counter to the eastward migratory pattern characteristic of my kind – a migration which, over time, deposits us in the Sunshine State like calcium carbonate on a stalagmite …
An excerpt from “The Final Frontier?” presentation I gave at the Marian Koshland Science Museum, in Washington, D.C., April 10, 2008. Mostly about cell phones, but a bit about Thomas Edison and the light bulb, Las Vegas, Windows Vista, and cost-benefits analysis. More to come… PaperOpus
My sister told me recently that she won’t eat Chinese food anymore because it has too much sodium. But isn’t that ridiculous? To single out one element from the Periodic Table? You’d have to have a pretty sensitive palette: “Oh, I don’t eat Mexican food… too much magnesium!“ or “Waiter, I’m sorry, I asked for …
Both my parents smoked cigarettes while I was growing up, and I grew to dislike them (the cigarettes, not my parents). I’m a non-smoker, but not a militant one. In fact, I think some of the smoking restrictions here in California are a little extreme. Maybe even comical. My favorite example is the San Francisco …
Back in April, I was in Seattle, performing at the Mainstage Comedy and Music Club, a fantastic newer club, which I highly recommend to anyone in the area. To promote my shows, I made an appearance on The Bob Rivers Show on KZOK 102.5, a classic rock station. I had about as much fun as …
“For a Westerner to trash Western culture is like criticizing our nitrogen/oxygen atmosphere on the grounds that it sometimes gets windy, and besides, Jupiter’s is much prettier. You may not realize its advantages until you’re trying to breathe liquid methane.” – Neal Stephenson Это позволит более удачные стратегии. Наборы символов также наблюдать за их картинкам …
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 …