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Science Foo Camp 2008 on Nature Podcast

August 20th, 2008

While at Sci­ence Foo Camp 2008, I grabbed a few quick inter­views for the Nature pod­cast, which was posted today on Nature.com.  Just a few sound­bites from atten­dees David Bauer, Brian Cox, Chris Patil, and Mar­tin Rees. And a shout out to me.

It’s the lat­est episode so, for now, you can find it here.  When it gets moved to the archive, I’ll link to its per­ma­nent location.*

Thanks to every­one who took the time to speak to me!

* Update:  Here’s the pod­cast episode (21 August 2008) in mp3.  And also a text tran­scrip­tion.

Science Foo Camp 2008: Chapter 0

August 4th, 2008

This is a hel­luva week. I’ve been pro­mot­ing and prepar­ing for my upcom­ing sci­ence com­edy show at the San Fran­cisco Punch Line: Ratio­nal Com­edy for an Irra­tional Planet, Mon­day, August 11, 8pm, please come.

But between now and Mon­day I have what promises to be one of the most mem­o­rable week­ends of my life…

Fri­day through Sun­day, I’ll be attend­ing Sci­ence Foo Camp 2008 (“SciFoo”).

What is Sci­Foo, you ask?

Well, it’s an invitation-only gath­er­ing orga­nized by Nature, O’Reilly Media, and Google, and hosted at the famed Google­plex in Moun­tain View, CA.

It’s a week­end of inter­ac­tive ses­sions. All del­e­gates are also pre­sen­ters. There’s no agenda until we get there and then it is deter­mined col­lab­o­ra­tively and sub­ject to change through­out the weekend.

And who was invited?

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