Imagine the joy of Bay Area-bound science dabblers, then, when editor Marc Abrahams announced a West Coast book tour that included stopovers at Stanford University, NASA Ames Research Center, UC Berkeley, the Exploratorium, and West Coast Live. It makes my friends laugh even though they only read the headlines and gives me interesting ideas for the science fair. OK, maybe not the first, but certainly the most accomplished. Inside the Exploratorium's McBean Theater, program manager Melissa Alexander tries to settle a yammering crowd. Even the adults seem as if they are on a field trip.
Voices are inordinately loud.
Someone gets hit in the head with a jacket. There's some truth to that. A third of our readership can't tell the difference. Everyone here is determined to be irreverent. His banter is easy and relaxed.