Pirates Take This Week in Science

On Sept 16, 2009, DJ Prefect (that's me!) co-hosted This Week in Science while regular host Dr Kiki was on vacation.

Go download this episode off their website!

This Week in Science, hosted by Kirsten Sanford PhD and Justin Jackson, is a weekly 1-hour science broadcast based out of Davis (via KDVS) and podcasted around the world. Listenership is regularly in the tens of thousands, and that's just what they know from podcast downloads -- to say nothing of radio and direct stream tune-ins.

I had an excellent time, regretting only how slow my brain was at 8am after an hour of driving out from Oakland to Davis. And Kiki's commute is longer than that, and she does it every week, and comes out sounding wicked smart. FEAR THIS WOMAN.

[will flesh this part out with the articles I brought in... later]

I've been working like mad on several time-and-mind-consuming projects. Exciting and fun! But OMG tired!

Another piratical takeover attempt is scheduled for this Friday at 11:59pm, for a 2-hour hijacking of Psionic Dehiscence. I'll be bringing eager radio greenhorn Enki on to talk some science, some apocalypse, and some seasteading... Tune in then!

SciBarCamp Palo Alto coverage

Wednesday and Thursday of this week, I attended the SciBarCamp Palo Alto un-conference, generously hosted and deliciously catered for by the IFTF.

Pictures of the event shared via PicasaWeb

I did my best to record as much of this amazing conference via ustream using the hodgepodge of tools that happened to be in my car at the time. (When I produce films I hire cameramen, and I'm not also trying to be an active participant in what I'm filming -- bit of a conflict of interest, heh.)

There were challenges in keeping the stream going, due to the limited wifi network for guests at the IFTF. I'd love to work with the organizers next time around and arrange more technical stuff in advance, and increase the success and quality of these streams.

Keynote speech (broken up into 3 parts due to connection drops):








I did a panel w/ Dr. Kirsten Sanford on "Spinning Science", which was great fun, well-attended and well-debated. (cuts off at 50mins due to connection issues)




Matt Baggott did a "Psychedelics WTF" presentation that I wished I could have hung out more for, but I was still trying to set up capture devices for as many presentations as possible.



I took some audio of some other rooms that I wasn't in -- I'll edit and post that later.