Science Comedian

San Francisco Chronicle Features Science Comedian

January 9th, 2009

The San Fran­cisco Chron­i­cle ran a fea­ture story on me today (the print ver­sion actu­ally appears in the Date­book sec­tion, Sun­day, Jan­u­ary 11, 2009):

Mak­ing Sci­ence Funny:  Brian Malow

It’s writ­ten by Nick Thomas, who we love!  Last year, Nick did a Q&A with me for Nature:

Helium Walks Into a Bar

In addi­tion to being a pro­lific free­lance writer, Nick is Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor of Chem­istry at Auburn Uni­ver­sity in Mont­gomery, Alabama.

The arti­cle comes out in time to pro­mote my upcom­ing Bay Area shows – Tues­day at the San Fran­cisco Punch Line, and Wednes­day in Sun­ny­vale at Rooster T. Feath­ers.  Also, a week later at the Sacra­mento Punch Line on Jan­u­ary 22.

P.S.  The book I’m hold­ing is Cosm by Gre­gory Ben­ford, one of my favorite reads of 2008.

LabLit Interviews Science Comedian

November 24th, 2008

I was gone but now I’m back, apparently.

Rea­son­ably objec­tive third-party proof of my exis­tence is to be found in the form of an inter­view with me on LabLit.com – a web­site ded­i­cated to “the cul­ture of sci­ence in fic­tion & fact.”

I met LabLit edi­tor Jen­nifer Rohn at Sci­Foo this year.  She’s a cell biol­o­gist at Uni­ver­sity Col­lege Lon­don, a writer for pub­li­ca­tions such as Nature, and a fre­quent blog­ger.  Her first novel, Exper­i­men­tal Heart, has just been pub­lished, too.  It’s avail­able from Ama­zon or directly from the pub­lisher, Cold Spring Har­bor Lab­o­ra­tory Press. And, of course, it’s an exam­ple of “lab lit” – it’s described as a “roman­tic thriller set against the back­drop of con­tem­po­rary sci­en­tific research.”

Jenny attended my sci­ence com­edy ses­sion at Sci­Foo, and I par­tic­i­pated in a ses­sion that she and John Gilbey pre­sented enti­tled, “Seduc­ing the Pub­lic with Sci­ence.”  It was one of my favorite ses­sions and was attended by Ann Druyan, Brother Guy Con­sol­magno, Kevin Gra­zier, Ben Goldacre, Tim O’Reilly, Euge­nie Scott, Shel­ley Batts and others.

Any­way, Ian Brooks inter­viewed me and LabLit is an excel­lent web­site worth explor­ing and here’s a great place to start:

LabLit’s inter­view with sci­ence come­dian Brian Malow.