Posts Tagged ‘Jupiter’
Hawking, Space Colonization and Jupiter Impacts on Time.com
July 23rd, 2009
“Science Comedian: Talking Hawking, the Moon and Beyond” – our newest video essay is up on Time.com, as part of their celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. It’s about Stephen Hawking and space colonization.
Brian Malow on Edison, Cell Phones, Vista…
August 2nd, 2008
An excerpt from “The Final Frontier?” presentation I gave at the Marian Koshland Science Museum, in Washington, D.C., April 10, 2008.
Mostly about cell phones, but a bit about Thomas Edison and the light bulb, Las Vegas, Windows Vista, and cost-benefits analysis.
More to come…
Neal Stephenson on Jupiter Envy
July 26th, 2008
“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
