Humorous ramblings from the mind of Brian Malow
Spontaneous Emissions: An Evening of Science Humor with Science Comedian Brian Malow. 8pm, Wednesday, November 2, 2011, at Rooster T. Feather’s Comedy Club, Sunnyvale, CA. This event is part of the Bay Area Science Festival.
Today I had the most fun I’ve ever had on Twitter, thanks to the OPERA experiment working out of CERN, home of the Large Hadron Collider. The blogosphere is ablaze with news that they seem to have detected neutrinos traveling faster than light. If true, it would be the biggest science news of the century, …
Science Comedian Street Team: Activate! Please forward via email, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, telegraph, semaphore, smoke signals, and telepathy. I have two(2) big San Francisco shows coming up – plus, a bonus appearance at Ignite SF. One show is this week, part of SF Sketchfest – the others are just around the corner: February 8 and …
Alom Shaha has made a wonderful 28-minute film entitled “Why is Science Important?” Shaha is a physics teacher at an inner city school in the UK, and also a TV producer who specializes in science programs. The film was made to be broadcast on Teachers TV (a UK cable channel) but it’s also available online …
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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In conjunction with the COPUS Project’s Year of Science – and the March theme of Physics and Technology – I offer up a bit of humor on bad website usability on the Jet Blue website and also a couple thoughts on cell phones – loud users and shrinking sizes. Do you think we’ll live to …
Some phishing attempts are better – more honorable – than others. They might be HTML, for instance, and carefully mimic the look of an actual email from the particular bank or business they’re spoofing. They are evil, no question – but at least they have the respect to make a decent effort to hoodwink you. …
My mother used to tell me to “stand up straight.” It was one of her favorite things to say: “Stand up straight!” Many other people, I have discovered, also grew up hearing that phrase. It’s nearly universal. As if mothers were programmed to say it. In fact, I believe mothers have been telling their children …
I noticed a long time ago, whenever my mother would lose weight, my father would gain weight. And when my father lost weight, my mother gained weight. It was like the Conservation of Mass, within our family. Being the young scientist that I was, I developed a theory to explain the facts: You see, you …
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 …