Brian Heater

Brian Heater has worked at a number of tech pubs, including Engadget, Laptop, and PCMag (where he served as Senior Editor). Most recently, he was as the Managing Editor of TechTimes.com. His writing has appeared in Spin, Wired, Playboy, Entertainment Weekly, The Onion, Boing Boing, Publishers Weekly, The Daily Beast and various other publications. He hosts the weekly Boing Boing interview podcast RiYL, has appeared as a regular NPR contributor and shares his Queens apartment with a rabbit named Lucy.

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Get Your Tickets to the Raw Science Film Festival and Awards Ceremony, Featuring Martha Coolidge and Kevin Grazier!

Get Tickets to the Film Festival! Get Tickets to the Awards Ceremony! Have you heard about the big events we’re throwing in December?...   <div class="ngfb-excerpt-buttons"> <div class="ngfb-buttons en_US"> <div class="fb-like facebook-button" id="facebook-excerpt-buttons-post-1084" data-href="https://www.rawscience.tv/get-your-tickets-to-the-raw-science-film-festival-and-awards-ceremony-featuring-martha-coolidge-and-john-singleton/" data-send="true" data-layout="button_count" data-show-faces="false" data-font="arial" data-colorscheme="light" data-action="like"></div> <div class="gplusone-button" id="gplusone-excerpt-buttons-post-1084"><span class="g-plusone" data-size="medium" data-annotation="none" data-href="https://www.rawscience.tv/get-your-tickets-to-the-raw-science-film-festival-and-awards-ceremony-featuring-martha-coolidge-and-john-singleton/"></span></div> <div class="twitter-button" id="twitter-excerpt-buttons-post-1084"><a href="https://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-lang="en" data-url="https://www.rawscience.tv/get-your-tickets-to-the-raw-science-film-festival-and-awards-ceremony-featuring-martha-coolidge-and-john-singleton/" data-counturl="https://www.rawscience.tv/get-your-tickets-to-the-raw-science-film-festival-and-awards-ceremony-featuring-martha-coolidge-and-john-singleton/" data-text="Get Your Tickets to the Raw Science Film Festival and Awards... #comets #media #rawscience" data-via="httpstwittercom" data-related="bheater" data-hashtags="" data-size="medium" data-dnt="true"></a></div> <script type="text/javascript">reddit_url="https://www.rawscience.tv/get-your-tickets-to-the-raw-science-film-festival-and-awards-ceremony-featuring-martha-coolidge-and-john-singleton/"; reddit_title="Get Your Tickets to the Raw Science Film Festival and Awards Ceremony, Featuring Martha Coolidge and Kevin Grazier!";</script><div class="reddit-button" id="reddit-excerpt-buttons-post-1084"><script type="text/javascript" src="https://www.reddit.com/static/button/button1.js"></script></div></div> </div>

Dr. Frank Shu: An Astrophysicist Offers An Outsider’s View on the Future of Energy

Dr. Frank Shu is beaming. “That’s it!” he smiles broadly, extending a hand to a colleague. The excitement is palatable in the sweat-soaked tropical...   <div class="ngfb-excerpt-buttons"> <div class="ngfb-buttons en_US"> <div class="fb-like facebook-button" id="facebook-excerpt-buttons-post-1006" data-href="https://www.rawscience.tv/dr-frank-shu-an-astrophysicist-offers-an-outsiders-view-on-the-future-of-energy/" data-send="true" data-layout="button_count" data-show-faces="false" data-font="arial" data-colorscheme="light" data-action="like"></div> <div class="gplusone-button" id="gplusone-excerpt-buttons-post-1006"><span class="g-plusone" data-size="medium" data-annotation="none" data-href="https://www.rawscience.tv/dr-frank-shu-an-astrophysicist-offers-an-outsiders-view-on-the-future-of-energy/"></span></div> <div class="twitter-button" id="twitter-excerpt-buttons-post-1006"><a href="https://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-lang="en" data-url="https://www.rawscience.tv/dr-frank-shu-an-astrophysicist-offers-an-outsiders-view-on-the-future-of-energy/" data-counturl="https://www.rawscience.tv/dr-frank-shu-an-astrophysicist-offers-an-outsiders-view-on-the-future-of-energy/" data-text="Dr. Frank Shu: An Astrophysicist Offers An Outsider’s View... #biochar #climatechange #frankshu" data-via="httpstwittercom" data-related="bheater" data-hashtags="" data-size="medium" data-dnt="true"></a></div> <script type="text/javascript">reddit_url="https://www.rawscience.tv/dr-frank-shu-an-astrophysicist-offers-an-outsiders-view-on-the-future-of-energy/"; reddit_title="Dr. Frank Shu: An Astrophysicist Offers An Outsider’s View on the Future of Energy";</script><div class="reddit-button" id="reddit-excerpt-buttons-post-1006"><script type="text/javascript" src="https://www.reddit.com/static/button/button1.js"></script></div></div> </div>

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Introducing Raw Science’s First Annual Film Festival!

Have a passion for science and access to a camera? Then you’ll want to check out the first annual Raw Science Film Festival. The...   <div class="ngfb-excerpt-buttons"> <div class="ngfb-buttons en_US"> <div class="fb-like facebook-button" id="facebook-excerpt-buttons-post-748" data-href="https://www.rawscience.tv/introducing-raw-sciences-first-annual-film-festival/" data-send="true" data-layout="button_count" data-show-faces="false" data-font="arial" data-colorscheme="light" data-action="like"></div> <div class="gplusone-button" id="gplusone-excerpt-buttons-post-748"><span class="g-plusone" data-size="medium" data-annotation="none" data-href="https://www.rawscience.tv/introducing-raw-sciences-first-annual-film-festival/"></span></div> <div class="twitter-button" id="twitter-excerpt-buttons-post-748"><a href="https://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-lang="en" data-url="https://www.rawscience.tv/introducing-raw-sciences-first-annual-film-festival/" data-counturl="https://www.rawscience.tv/introducing-raw-sciences-first-annual-film-festival/" data-text="Introducing Raw Science’s First Annual Film Festival! – Page 2 #film #filmfestival #rawscience" data-via="httpstwittercom" data-related="bheater" data-hashtags="" data-size="medium" data-dnt="true"></a></div> <script type="text/javascript">reddit_url="https://www.rawscience.tv/introducing-raw-sciences-first-annual-film-festival/"; reddit_title="Introducing Raw Science’s First Annual Film Festival!";</script><div class="reddit-button" id="reddit-excerpt-buttons-post-748"><script type="text/javascript" src="https://www.reddit.com/static/button/button1.js"></script></div></div> </div>

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The Thorium Report with Dr. X : an exclusive Raw Science comic

By Box Brown Box Brown is the Ignatz Award winning author of the recent graphic biography, “Andre the Giant: Life and Legend” and the...   <div class="ngfb-excerpt-buttons"> <div class="ngfb-buttons en_US"> <div class="fb-like facebook-button" id="facebook-excerpt-buttons-post-790" data-href="https://www.rawscience.tv/the-thorium-report-with-dr-x-an-exclusive-rawscience-comic/" data-send="true" data-layout="button_count" data-show-faces="false" data-font="arial" data-colorscheme="light" data-action="like"></div> <div class="gplusone-button" id="gplusone-excerpt-buttons-post-790"><span class="g-plusone" data-size="medium" data-annotation="none" data-href="https://www.rawscience.tv/the-thorium-report-with-dr-x-an-exclusive-rawscience-comic/"></span></div> <div class="twitter-button" id="twitter-excerpt-buttons-post-790"><a href="https://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-lang="en" data-url="https://www.rawscience.tv/the-thorium-report-with-dr-x-an-exclusive-rawscience-comic/" data-counturl="https://www.rawscience.tv/the-thorium-report-with-dr-x-an-exclusive-rawscience-comic/" data-text="The Thorium Report with Dr. X : an exclusive... #moltensaltreactor #nuclearenergy #october2014" data-via="httpstwittercom" data-related="bheater" data-hashtags="" data-size="medium" data-dnt="true"></a></div> <script type="text/javascript">reddit_url="https://www.rawscience.tv/the-thorium-report-with-dr-x-an-exclusive-rawscience-comic/"; reddit_title="The Thorium Report with Dr. X : an exclusive Raw Science comic";</script><div class="reddit-button" id="reddit-excerpt-buttons-post-790"><script type="text/javascript" src="https://www.reddit.com/static/button/button1.js"></script></div></div> </div>

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How a Science-Themed All-Girl Doo-Wop Group Became the First Image on the World Wide Web

Behold, the first photographic image ever published on the World Wide Web. Quite the honor for unknown science-themed doo-wop group. It helps, of course,...   <div class="ngfb-excerpt-buttons"> <div class="ngfb-buttons en_US"> <div class="fb-like facebook-button" id="facebook-excerpt-buttons-post-733" data-href="https://www.rawscience.tv/how-a-science-themed-all-girl-doo-woop-group-became-the-first-image-on-the-world-wide-web/" data-send="true" data-layout="button_count" data-show-faces="false" data-font="arial" data-colorscheme="light" data-action="like"></div> <div class="gplusone-button" id="gplusone-excerpt-buttons-post-733"><span class="g-plusone" data-size="medium" data-annotation="none" data-href="https://www.rawscience.tv/how-a-science-themed-all-girl-doo-woop-group-became-the-first-image-on-the-world-wide-web/"></span></div> <div class="twitter-button" id="twitter-excerpt-buttons-post-733"><a href="https://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-lang="en" data-url="https://www.rawscience.tv/how-a-science-themed-all-girl-doo-woop-group-became-the-first-image-on-the-world-wide-web/" data-counturl="https://www.rawscience.tv/how-a-science-themed-all-girl-doo-woop-group-became-the-first-image-on-the-world-wide-web/" data-text="How a Science-Themed All-Girl Doo-Wop Group Became the... #cern #computerscience #earlyinternet" data-via="httpstwittercom" data-related="bheater" data-hashtags="" data-size="medium" data-dnt="true"></a></div> <script type="text/javascript">reddit_url="https://www.rawscience.tv/how-a-science-themed-all-girl-doo-woop-group-became-the-first-image-on-the-world-wide-web/"; reddit_title="How a Science-Themed All-Girl Doo-Wop Group Became the First Image on the World Wide Web";</script><div class="reddit-button" id="reddit-excerpt-buttons-post-733"><script type="text/javascript" src="https://www.reddit.com/static/button/button1.js"></script></div></div> </div>