The Big Bang in Brief

Despite the fact that the Big Bang has sort of been going on for billions and billions of years, Janna Levin, a professor of physics and astronomy at Barnard College of Columbia University, explains it in this two-minute video about The Big Bang. This is part of a new series called the Briefly series. Taking theory and presenting it in it’s most concise form.The producers started with the Big Bang because the theory is important and amazing, but often misunderstood.

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It Would Be Funny If It Weren’t So Scary

These are interviews with the 60,00 to 70,000 people who turned out for the big Tea Bagger March in Washington. Apparently, you don’t have to really know anything about what you’re protesting. It’s all just bad because it is Obama, and some industry or media flak like Glenn Beck told you to be mad and scared.

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