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TIME 100′s Elon Musk

April 30th, 2010

Time Mag­a­zine has announced the Time 100 – their annual list of the most influ­en­tial peo­ple of the year.  It’s divided into four main cat­e­gories:  Lead­ers, Heroes, Artists, and Thinkers.

One of those Thinkers is Elon Musk, co-founder of Pay­Pal and cur­rent CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX.

Jon Favreau – direc­tor of the Iron Man movies – wrote the entry on Musk, hav­ing used him as a model for the bil­lion­aire Tony Stark char­ac­ter.  David Clair and I made a new video about him:

Here’s the new video on Time’s site.

For a more in-depth piece, check out our pre­vi­ous piece about SpaceX and pri­vate enter­prise in space:

Space: The Pri­vate Frontier

Space: The Private Frontier

February 2nd, 2010

My new video (pro­duced by David Clair) is up at Time.com. It’s about Elon Musk and SpaceX – and we were almost fin­ished with it when the topic exploded into the news a week or so ago – Obama, the bud­get, the future of NASA, Ares and con­tract­ing out space flights to pri­vate com­pa­nies. We didn’t set out to address all that but we did include it.  Check it out…

Videos for Time Magazine

November 20th, 2009

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.

Herschel Space Observatory – Time Magazine’s Best Inventions

November 15th, 2009

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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.

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