Today I participated in the “March for Science” protest held near Central Park in New York City. A larger protest event took place in Washington, D.C, and New York was one of many ‘satellite’ marches held all over the world. If you aren’t familiar with this movement, it is a reaction to the Trump administration’s…
I’m currently in the process of developing a new science series for YouTube. Rather than buy a stock track for the intro, I decided to create the music myself. It will ultimately take longer than going the stock route, but I think it’s worth the effort because a) I won’t have to worry about rights…
Writing for videos and podcasts has taught me an important lesson: Compared to your eyes, your ears aren’t the brightest sensory organs in the room. I’m no neuroscientist, but if you look at the amount of grey matter dedicated to making sense of what we see versus what we hear, it’s apparent that we’ve evolved…
I work with big cameras. Big honkin’ cameras with a multitude of inputs, buttons and switches; professional audio inputs and often interchangeable lenses. But sometimes it’s nice to bring things back down to manageable proportions. So this past weekend I grabbed our household’s trusty point-and-shoot camera and headed for the Bronx Zoo to see what…
A sperm whale’s penis has no bones. This allows its flexible member to penetrate a female sperm whale from any number of directions; a necessity when two multi-ton animals are trying to line up tab A with slot B in an unsteady ocean environment. This and other interesting facts about sperm whales are the subject…