Posts Tagged ‘Earth’

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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Science Comedian Riffs on Hydrogen and Helium at Ignite

Our Ignite pre­sen­ta­tion is up on YouTube and the O’Reilly Media Ignite Show page.

Tara and I cre­ated the pre­sen­ta­tion – with me doing most of the writ­ing and her doing most of the graph­ics. Our friend Michael Capoz­zola hand-drew the final slide for us (prim­i­tive tech­nique but effective!).

We attempt to tell a 14-billion year story in five min­utes: “A Tale of Two Ele­ments” takes us from the Big Bang to the Earth and touches on a prob­lem that many peo­ple are not aware of – the helium short­age (a local prob­lem). Enjoy!…

What is Ignite?

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