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About Me

NOVA is the highest rated science series on television and the most watched documentary series on public television. Since 1974, NOVA has shown the human story behind science -- whether exploring a galaxy or an atom, the series delves into the personalities responsible for the discoveries, and the social consequences of events in the lab.

My Interests

Scientific hoaxes, chemistry sets, extinctions, time travel, alien abductions, lost treasure, lost empires and lost people, mummies, Neanderthals, Vikings, Loch Ness, robots, spies, natural disasters, evolution, prison escapes, spelunking

I'd like to meet:

All NOVA Lovers!

Music:

the sound of solar winds, the bubble of a chem lab, the whirr of a particle collider, Duran Duran.

Movies:

All new NOVAs!

Television:

Me, anything on PBS, Bill Nye the Science Guy, Carl Sagan's Cosmos

Books:

A Short History of Nearly Everything, The Elegant Universe, Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution, Gray's Anatomy, Guns, Germs, and Steel, Genome, Silent Spring, Into Thin Air, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Heroes:

Galileo, Carl Sagan, Charles Darwin, Rosalind Franklin, Albert Einstein, Michael Faraday, Pythagoras, Sir Isaac Newton, Gloria White-Hammond, Emilie du Châtelet, Stephen Hawking, Neil deGrasse Tyson, the Wright Brothers, and viewers like you

My Blog

We’re hiring!

NOVA and WGBH Interactive, the creators of the award-winning NOVA and NOVA scienceNOW Web sites, are looking for a new developer. If you are passionate about quality work, user experience and the futu...
Posted by NOVA on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:01:00 PST

Car of the Future premieres tonight at 8pm ET/PT on PBS!

Tom Magliozzi has a problem. The wacky cohost of NPR's Car Talk needs to replace his beloved 1952 MG roadster. But in today's car market, where should he turn? Is new technology about to transform the...
Posted by NOVA on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 06:57:00 PST

Car Open Content

Open content is material that anyone can use, free of charge, with only a few restrictions. The content, in this case, is raw footage shot for NOVA's "Car of the Future" documentary. We at N...
Posted by NOVA on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 06:42:00 PST

Watch Cracking the Maya Code Tuesday, April 8 at 8pm ET/PT

The ancient Maya civilization of Central America left behind an intricate and mysterious hieroglyphic script, carved on monuments, painted on pottery, and drawn in handmade bark-paper books. For centu...
Posted by NOVA on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 01:15:00 PST

NOVA scienceNOW podcast

Below is a podcast preview of our NOVA scienceNOW series. Tune in this summer for the whole story.Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at SETI, thinks it's just a matter of time before we find evidence of ...
Posted by NOVA on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:48:00 PST

Science Matinees at the Museum

If you're in the WGBH neighborhood, join us Saturday, March 8 for a special screening of The Four-Winged Dinosaur at the Harvard Museum of Natural History. The film starts at noon and will be followed...
Posted by NOVA on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:01:00 PST

The Four-Winged Dino Gets Down

"The Four-Winged Dinosaur" premieres Tuesday, February 26 at 8pm on PBS. For more:http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/microraptor/...
Posted by NOVA on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 07:13:00 PST

A Dinosaur Is Born

How many scientists does it take to make a flying dinosaur? Go behind the scenes of NOVA's The Four-Winged Dinosaur and see how scientific reconstructors created a model Microraptor--an exot...
Posted by NOVA on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 07:09:00 PST

NOVA goes inside a Soviet spy station

NOVA was given unprecedented access to a restricted Russian space facility for the filming of "Astrospies." In this clip, watch a cosmonaut demonstrate the reconnaissance systems on a fully ...
Posted by NOVA on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:45:00 PST

Watch "Astrospies" Tuesday, February 12 at 8pm

Millions remember the countdowns, launches, splashdowns, and parades as the U.S. raced the Soviet Union to the moon in the 1960s. Few know that both superpowers ran parallel covert space programs to l...
Posted by NOVA on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 01:55:00 PST