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Helium – So Long and Thanks for all the Balloons!

Brian — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 09:44:32 +0000

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?…

Science Comedian on BoingBoing

Brian — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:13:32 +0000

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!

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

Thank you, goodnight!

Videos for Time Magazine

Brian — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:38:08 +0000

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.

Science Comedian Riffs on Hydrogen and Helium at Ignite

Brian — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:39:10 +0000

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?

The evening consisted of about fifteen 5-minute PowerPoint presentations. Each presenter gets 20 slides that auto-advance every 15 seconds. Within those limitations, you create a presentation that should be of interest to geeks.

Since Brady Forrest and Bre Pettis started Ignite in Seattle in 2006, events have been happening all over the world and hundreds of presentations have been given. Recently, they started putting them online, one per week, with some post-production added. Ours is Episode 11.

It was presented on April 1, 2009, at the Ignite SF event, which was also a party for the Web 2.0 Conference going on that week (hence, the 2.0 reference in the piece).

Links:

Brian Malow – Ignite Presentation – “A Tale of Two Elements”

Brian Malow on Hydrogen and Helium at O’Reilly’s Ignite Show page

For more information about Ignite, visit http://ignite.oreilly.com/show/

Ignite on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/ignite