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Dr. John Brandenburg: Confessions of a NASA Space Scientist

Earth Ancients

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The Importance of Humor in Science

When I worked at the University of Central Florida, they told me when I was at Livermore that academia was a very cutthroat and very funding for grants. And we're going to talk about the analysis that you discovered in the atmosphere of Mars. But the collection of scientists that Hoeglen pulled together, what was the goal? What was the ultimate theme? Well, I wanted to... He wanted to get ... He was a journalist himself, guys brilliant, but he's more of a journalist than a scientist. A lot of them felt the same way I did.

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