Blue Collar Scientist

My first public appearance of 2008 will be at the Campbell Creek Science Center tonight (Thursday, January 10) at 7:00 PM.

I’ll be giving a talk on the history of how we discovered the universe. This one is going to be a pretty top-down lecture, not my favorite kind, but the material is interesting (to me and my modest group of fans, at least), and I promise you will learn how we learned the things we know about the universe. I won’t be blowing things up and there will be very little audience participation. :-( Subtitled “we are not special, but we are pretty cool,” it will be a survey of the most significant discoveries and models of the universe through western history, and how they were made.

I really love the venue at Campbell Creek. They have a great room with good acoustics, they treat me way better than most of the other venues I work, and each time I go I get a blue coffee mug. I’m looking forward to collecting my seventh tonight - hope they’re still giving them out!

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