Just watched Phil “Bad Astronomy” Plait’s new Discovery Channel Show Bad Universe. Great stuff! He’s an enthusiastic and engaging host. We’ll be watching the whole series. Minor quibble: Phil uses his signature phrase “Holy Haleakala!” about six times too many during the hour. Maybe it’s just me. Overall, though, a thoroughly entertaining show. Check it out!
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Bad Universe is Good TV
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
Phil Plait steps down from JREF
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009Holy Haleakala! After just over a year at the helm, Phil “Bad Astronomer” Plait is stepping down as president of the James Randi Educational Foundation to pursue an undisclosed TV project. His worthy successor is Center for Inquiry’s D.J. Grothe. Read JREF’s press release here, and Plait’s comments here.
Boy hit by meteorite? Maybe…
Sunday, June 14th, 2009Telegraph.co.uk reports that a boy in Germany claims to have been struck in the hand by a small meteorite, which “knocked [him] flying” before leaving a foot-wide crater in the ground.
I’m not an astronomer, but the story sounded fishy to me (including the “fact” that the meteorite was travelling at an incredible 30,000 mph). Luckily, Phil Plait IS an astronomer (albeit a “Bad” one), and he throws some great analysis towards this questionable tale.
Death from the Skies
Friday, February 20th, 2009
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
SWEET MERCIFUL HEAVENS,
is this really the way the world ends?!?!?!
Review by John C. Snider © 2009
We’ve all read the nightmare scenarios: a massive asteroid is going to slam into the earth unless a team of hastily-gathered astronauts can land on it and blow it to smithereens; the sun belches out a particularly energetic tongue of solar material that threatens to boil us in our own juices; or a rogue black hole comes sauntering through the solar system and sucks up the earth like it was the last slurp of milkshake in the bottom of the glass. Sure, it’s scary fun, but how realistic are these imaginings? For that matter, how likely are they? How will the world end, anyway?
Podcast #43 – Phil Plait
Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
We interview Phil Plait, Bad Astronomy blogger, new president of the James Randi Educational Foundation, booster for the International Year of Astronomy, and author of the pop-science book Death from the Skies. Yes, he is busy. [Late-breaking news: Bad Astronomy was just named as one of the Top 25 blogs in the world by Time magazine!]
Phil “The Pundit” Plait on bloggingheads.tv
Monday, February 23rd, 2009Have you people not had enough of Phil Plait of late? Nay? Then check out his recent appearance at bloggingheads.tv (one of my favorite sites for detailed punditry). Good job, Phil!
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