Just got back from a great trip to Beijing, very enjoyable if a bit tiring, where much musing was done on the Primordial Existential Question, about which more anon. But I also mused a bit about what this blog needs, and I came to the conclusion that must have been obvious to everyone else long ago: more videos of me.<\/p>\n
So, here you are. Thanks to some heroic efforts on the part of folks who would just as soon lurk behind the scenes, we now have video captured from the C-SPAN broadcast of our science panel at YearlyKos<\/a>. Here is my talk, conveniently divided into two pieces to appease the YouTube gods. They are a little fuzzy, but you get the idea. I used the mysterious beauty of dark matter and dark energy as an excuse to make some didactic points about science and rationality and politics. (If I weren’t an atheist, I would have made a good preacher.) You can also find videos of Chris’s talk<\/a> and Ed’s talk<\/a> at their respective sites; Tara, who felt sorry for me<\/a> for being given the impossible task of making the universe sound interesting, has the Q&A up<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n But! Behind the fold, the true payoff!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Those talks of mine are inspiring and educational and all that, but they’re not truly art<\/em>. For that, you will have to check out this series of videos<\/a> by Dylan King. Here is a taste.<\/p>\n