Monthly Archives: March 2014

Want to know more about Giordano Bruno?

[Updated 8:30am (PST), March 14] Last night the new COSMOS series aired on FOX and National Geographic channels, hosted by the one and only Neil DeGrasse Tyson and rolled out in style by producer Seth MacFarlane.  Roughly a quarter of the 43-minute program was devoted to the story of Giordano Bruno, an Italian monk and […]

Posted in Extra Credit

Ocean180 & the Amazon River Plume

Here is the story of two microscopic creatures, caught between life and death, who together bring life to an entire ocean. That’s the opening of the video abstract that I recently put together with Dr. Laurence Yeung and Nic Perez for the Ocean180 Video Challenge – an outstanding new contest for ocean scientists to bring their […]

Posted in News, TA Episodes