With so many recent movies and TV shows about time travel – Star Trek, The Time Traveler’s Wife, Lost, FlashForward, Heroes – I thought it might be fun to explore the science behind this science fiction device. Our most recent video for Time.com asks, Is Time Travel Possible?…
Somehow this didn’t make it into the blog earlier – our Time.com video about helium. A flight in a zeppelin, a visit with the Balloon Lady, and the end of an era?… Related Post: Science Comedian Riffs on Hydrogen and Helium at Ignite
For our newest video for Time.com, I visited an old friend, Norm Gershenz of SaveNature.org, to discuss some of their programs for raising awareness and saving precious habitats that are home to strange and beautiful creatures like the giant thorny phasmid. Find out more about the Insect Discovery Lab and how you can bring it …
Our most recent video for Time.com is about the new ABC series, “FlashForward.” The show is based on the 1999 novel by Canadian science fiction author Robert J. Sawyer, whom we met this summer at the Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop.
Ha! I’m international and multi-lingual:
“Science Comedian: Talking Hawking, the Moon and Beyond” – our newest video essay is up on Time.com, as part of their celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. It’s about Stephen Hawking and space colonization.
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!…
Our Ignite presentation is up on YouTube and the O’Reilly Media Ignite Show page. Tara and I created the presentation – with me doing most of the writing and her doing most of the graphics. Our friend Michael Capozzola hand-drew the final slide for us (primitive technique but effective!). We attempt to tell a 14-billion …
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A second video for the COPUS Project’s Year of Science and the March theme of Physics and Technology. A few thoughts on… Alfred Nobel, who funded the Nobel Prize with the fortune he made from his invention of dynamite, the first relatively stable and safely-usable form of nitroglycerin. Thomas Edison, who perfected the incandescent light …
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