Science Comedian

Science Comedy Video

August 5th, 2008

A mon­tage of some of my sci­ence com­edy rou­tines, taken mostly from two events at the Mar­ian Koshland Sci­ence Museum of the National Acad­emy of Sci­ences (in 2006 and 2007).

A cou­ple clips from my 2008 per­for­mance appear ear­lier in this blog (on cell phones and Karma) and more are com­ing soon.

Too Much Sodium

August 1st, 2008

My sis­ter told me recently that she won’t eat Chi­nese food any­more because it has too much sodium.

But isn’t that ridicu­lous? To sin­gle out one ele­ment from the Peri­odic Table? You’d have to have a pretty sen­si­tive palette:

“Oh, I don’t eat Mex­i­can food… too much mag­ne­sium!“

or

“Waiter, I’m sorry, I asked for the beryl­lium on the side…”

or

“Noth­ing ruins a ham and cheese sand­wich like a tad too much molybdenum.”

How many times have you said that?

Per­son­ally, I love Chi­nese food. I don’t care if there’s plu­to­nium in it… it might be a lit­tle hot, but I’m eat­ing it.