Science Comedian

H+ Summit @ Harvard

May 20th, 2010

I’m thrilled to be speak­ing at the H+ Sum­mit @ Har­vard. An amaz­ing lineup of 50 speak­ers includ­ing Ray Kurzweil, Stephen Wol­fram, and Aubrey de Grey.

The H+ Sum­mit @ Har­vard is an edu­ca­tional, and sci­en­tific out­reach event that cov­ers the themes of the impact of tech­nol­ogy on the human con­di­tion. It is hosted, and orga­nized by the Har­vard Col­lege Future Soci­ety, in coop­er­a­tion with Humanity+.

June 12-13, 2010.

SkeptiCal 2010 Science & Skepticism Conference

April 19th, 2010

I will be speak­ing at Skep­ti­Cal 2010, the North­ern Cal­i­for­nia Sci­ence & Skep­ti­cism Con­fer­ence in Berke­ley, April 24.

Other speak­ers include Euge­nie Scott, Seth Shostak, Kirsten San­ford, Brian Dun­ning, and more.  See the list of speak­ers.

• Date: Sat­ur­day, April 24, 2010. 9AM to 6PM.
• Loca­tion: Brower Cen­ter, Berke­ley, California.
• Spon­sors: Bay Area Skep­tics and Sacramento-Area Skep­tics
• Tick­ets: Tick­ets are $40 for the reg­u­lar reg­is­tra­tion and $55 for reg­is­tra­tion and a t-shirt. See the fan­tas­tic t-shirt design by Ranch7 Cre­ative. This event is expected to sell out, so please reserve your ticket as soon as possible!

Why is Science Important?

March 18th, 2009

Alom Shaha has made a won­der­ful 28-minute film enti­tled “Why is Sci­ence Important?”

Shaha is a physics teacher at an inner city school in the UK, and also a TV pro­ducer who spe­cial­izes in sci­ence pro­grams.  The film was made to be broad­cast on Teach­ers TV (a UK cable chan­nel) but it’s also avail­able online in excel­lent HD qual­ity – and can even be shared and embed­ded, as seen below (you can view a larger size if you click over to his site).

The web­site also con­tains “a col­lec­tion of thoughts from lead­ing sci­en­tists, pub­lic fig­ures …and you.”  Add your thoughts on why sci­ence is impor­tant and they’ll appear along­side the thoughts of Bad Astronomer Phil Plait, SETI’s Seth Shostak, LabLit’s Jen­nifer Rohn, and many others.

Visit Alom’s YouTube Chan­nel – sci­ence­films – to see more answers to the ques­tion “Why is Sci­ence Impor­tant?” as well as some of his other films.

Links:
Why is Sci­ence Impor­tant?
Bad Astron­omy blog
SETI
Seth Shostak
LabLit