This past Friday, I performed at the Sacramento Comedy Spot (in , uh, Sacramento, CA). To promote the show, I made an early morning appearance on a local TV show, “Good Day, Sacramento.” I said, “Good day!” We talked about science and comedy and insect photography. They even pulled up my photo blog: InsectPaparazzi.com . …
I’m on BoingBoing! Maggie Koerth-Baker posted a YouTube clip of me this morning. It’s an excerpt from my performance two weeks ago at Wonderfest, the Bay Area science festival. The entire festival was videotaped by Fora.tv. You can see the rest of my 15-minute performance here. Also, a dialogue I moderated entitled Do Robots Make …
Someone I met via Twitter – Delia the Artist – just interviewed me for Current.com. Current has a shorter, edited version of the interview but Delia is hosting the full interview on her own site. And, oh look! Here comes the full version now… Where does science meet comedy? Somewhere in Brian Malow’s universe. From …
A few months ago I was asked to write an essay about being a science comedian for a really cool publication – Symmetry Magazine – and it finally came out today! Symmetry is “a magazine about particle physics and its connections to other aspects of life and science” – and it’s put out jointly by …
When I attended the University of Texas, in Austin, back in the last century, I took a few astronomy classes and the most interesting one was called “Astronomy in Science Fiction.” Through the fog of memory that sits like interstellar dust between me and Total Recall, I can only say with a level of certainty …
There’s a new Q&A with me up at The Manitoban – the inventively-named official student newspaper of the University of Manitoba, in Canada. Student journalist Trevor Bekolay contacted me two weeks ago, intending to write a short article about science and humor (or “humour,” as he calls it) but, after transcribing our telephone conversation, he …
If you know me, you probably know I’ve always had a thing about Abraham Lincoln. Nothing kinky. It goes back as far as 2nd grade – at least that’s my oldest surviving writing about Abe. Now, combine that with my obvious respect for Charles Darwin – who shares his birthday with Lincoln (February 12, 1809) …
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Mike Brotherton has a really nice blog post about me. Mike is a science fiction writer who also happens to be an associate professor at the University of Wyoming in the department of Physics and Astronomy. Quasars are his specialty! And there’s a lot of great content in his blog. Check it out. I’m ecstatic …
Roman Mars of KALW, a San Francisco public radio station, produced a piece on me that aired yesterday on the show Cross Currents: “The Bay Area is home to some of the smartest people on the planet. So, it makes sense that our brainy nature would demand the occasional brainy entertainment. That’s where Brian Malow, …