Archive for the ‘COPUS’ Category

International Year of Astronomy Video on Time.com

I have a new video essay on Time.com about Galileo and the International Year of Astronomy. It features exoplanet hunter extraordinaire Geoff Marcy and Ben Burress of the Chabot Space and Science Center.

Check it out. Let me know what you think. And get your own Galileoscope!…

Stand Up for Evolution!

Continuing our celebration of 2009 as The Year of Science, this is my second video for the COPUS Project.

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Year of Science – January – Why is the sky blue?

If you don’t already know, let me be the first to tell you: 2009 is the Year of Science!

It’s the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species and the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin. Abraham Lincoln was also born on the exact same day (and year) as Darwin, and Lincoln would found the Academy of Sciences.

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