Science Comedian

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?…

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Science Comedian Riffs on Hydrogen and Helium at Ignite

New half-hour interview with James Cameron about the making of Avatar. From Popular Mechanics:

Awesome science cookies in a series of posts to a food blog by a biological anthropologist.

Aren’t all anthropologists biological?  I’m a biological comedian.

Ooh, she also has Space Invaders!

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 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!

I’m @sciencecomedian on Twitter.  Follow me!

And check out the science videos I’ve been making for Time Magazine’s website.

Thank you, goodnight!

Found this great old commercial for prunes featuring Ray Bradbury:

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.

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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:

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 to your Bay Area classroom.