Posts Tagged ‘Books’

Lincoln and Darwin Sitting in a Tree…

It’s that time again!  Happy Birth­day, Abra­ham Lin­coln and Charles Dar­win!  This year they would have turned 201 years old.

Last year was the big year – 200th birth­day and the 150th anniver­sary of the pub­li­ca­tion of “The Ori­gin of Species.”  This video essay was my first project for Time Magazine’s web­site.  Pro­duced by Craig Duff and edited by Jim Fields:

Video:  Lin­coln and Dar­win: Birth­days and Evolution

The Scientific Mind Behind FlashForward

Our most recent video for Time.com is about the new ABC series, “Flash­For­ward.”  The show is based on the 1999 novel by Cana­dian sci­ence fic­tion author Robert J. Sawyer, whom we met this sum­mer at the Launch Pad Astron­omy Work­shop.

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The Winter of Our Discontent

Christ­mas in Mass­a­chu­setts.  Enjoy­ing some sea­sonal read­ing… (click image to enlarge)

The Winter of Our Discontent

Neal Stephenson on Jupiter Envy

“For a West­erner to trash West­ern cul­ture is like crit­i­ciz­ing our nitrogen/oxygen atmos­phere on the grounds that it some­times gets windy, and besides, Jupiter’s is much pret­tier. You may not real­ize its advan­tages until you’re try­ing to breathe liq­uid methane.”

- Neal Stephenson