Archive for November, 2009
Science Comedian on BoingBoing
November 23rd, 2009
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 Better Astronauts? (featuring Chris McKay of NASA Ames and Kanna Rajan of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute).
If you’re visiting from BoingBoing… Welcome!
It’s odd to be judged just by these admittedly – purposely – corny bar jokes. They aren’t exactly representative of my entire act. They were the silly end to my presentation.
And they also cut the routine short – there are a few more, including the final bar joke which is arguably the best one…. about Helium.
Check out the rest of that performance or see my other YouTube clips: www.youtube.com/sciencecomedian . Subscribe!
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And check out the science videos I’ve been making for Time Magazine’s website.
Thank you, goodnight!
Ray Bradbury Commercial for Prunes
November 23rd, 2009
Found this great old commercial for prunes featuring Ray Bradbury:
Videos for Time Magazine
November 20th, 2009
You can easily access all the science videos I’ve made for Time Magazine’s website at this link – the results from a search on my name (Brian Malow) at Time.com.
Free WiFi on Virgin America – Thanks, Google!
November 13th, 2009
For the holiday season, Google is offering free WiFi on all Virgin America flights. So this is my first in-flight post.
I’m flying from Boston to San Francisco, returning from a college gig at SUNY Plattsburgh, which is so far up, up, upstate New York that it’s just a stone’s throw from Montreal (you’d have to have a very good arm and/or be throwing the stone in a weaker gravity field, perhaps that of an asteroid).
I’m 38,078 feet over the Nevada desert, flying 463 mph and it’s -64 degrees F. outside.
And I’m surfing the web. +1 Internets.
Virgin America has the coolest planes – they’re like flying discotheques:
The free in-flight WiFi from Google is only part of the deal. They are also providing free WiFi in a bunch of airports – including Boston Logan where I took a pic of this sign:
