Science Comedian

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.

2009 also marks the 400th anniver­sary of Galileo’s first use of the tele­scope to study the skies – and the 400th anniver­sary of the pub­li­ca­tion of Kepler’s first two laws of plan­e­tary motion.

It’s the Inter­na­tional Year of Astron­omy and the Inter­na­tional Year of Planet Earth.

2009 is the Year of Science.

What are you going to do about it?

I’ve joined COPUS – the Coali­tion on the Pub­lic Under­stand­ing of Sci­ence – a net­work of over 500 orga­ni­za­tions work­ing to pro­mote sci­ence aware­ness through­out the year. Each month is a dif­fer­ent theme – evo­lu­tion, energy resources, astron­omy, physics, bio­di­ver­sity, etc. I will be pro­duc­ing video and audio con­tent that will appear on the COPUS web­site. I also hope to be involved in events in the Bay Area and elsewhere.

January’s theme is the Process and Nature of Sci­ence. Here’s my first video touch­ing on the theme.

Related posts:

Why is the Sky Blue? (includes the real rea­son the sky is blue)
Year of Sci­ence, March: Nobel, Edi­son and the Speed of Light
Year of Sci­ence, March: Jet­Blue and Cell Phones
Year of Sci­ence, Feb­ru­ary:  Stand Up For Evo­lu­tion

Links:

http://www.copusproject.org

http://www.yearofscience.org