Science Comedian » Books http://www.sciencecomedian.com Brian Malow Wed, 02 Jun 2010 22:55:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Lincoln and Darwin Sitting in a Tree… http://www.sciencecomedian.com/blog/2010/02/lincoln-and-darwin-sitting-in-a-tree/ http://www.sciencecomedian.com/blog/2010/02/lincoln-and-darwin-sitting-in-a-tree/#comments Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:54:56 +0000 Brian http://www.sciencecomedian.com/?p=1337 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…

]]> 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

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]]> 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.

I went down to Los Angeles to meet Rob on the set of the show.  Well, actually, it was a location shoot for, I believe, the 7th episode of the first season (yeah, I said, “first”!).

In Rob’s book, an experiment at the Large Hadron Collider causes everyone in the world to experience a bit of their own future.  In the television series, we do not yet know what causes the flashforward but since Sawyer is a fan of science as well as science fiction, we took the opportunity to talk about a story that has captivated the press for the past couple years – that the LHC will create micro-black holes that will swallow up the Earth.

See the video – and many more – at Time.com.

]]> http://www.sciencecomedian.com/blog/2009/10/the-scientific-mind-behind-flashforward/feed/ 2 The Winter of Our Discontent http://www.sciencecomedian.com/blog/2008/12/the-winter-of-our-discontent/ http://www.sciencecomedian.com/blog/2008/12/the-winter-of-our-discontent/#comments Wed, 24 Dec 2008 03:50:00 +0000 Brian http://www.sciencecomedian.com/blog/?p=453 Christmas in Massachusetts.  Enjoying some seasonal reading… (click image to enlarge)

The Winter of Our Discontent

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

The Winter of Our Discontent

]]> http://www.sciencecomedian.com/blog/2008/12/the-winter-of-our-discontent/feed/ 0 Neal Stephenson on Jupiter Envy http://www.sciencecomedian.com/blog/2008/07/neal-stephenson-on-jupiter-envy/ http://www.sciencecomedian.com/blog/2008/07/neal-stephenson-on-jupiter-envy/#comments Sun, 27 Jul 2008 03:24:25 +0000 Brian http://www.sciencecomedian.com/blog/?p=40 “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.”…

]]> “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

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