Brian Thompson
Brian is the editor of The Amateur Scientist (www.amateurscientist.org), a daily news blog covering science, politics, religion, and dick jokes from a skeptical perspective. He also produces and co-hosts The Amateur Scientist Podcast, a skeptical comedy program whose past guests have included magician James "The Amazing" Randi, physicist Dr. Michio Kaku, Upright Citizens Brigade member Matt Besser, and the Cigarette Smoking Man himself, Mr. William B. Davis. All aspects of Amateur Scientist Industries are meant to promote reason, humanism, and dick jokes.He also edits GameSnobs.com, a site about video games and the virgins who play them.
Brian's writing has also appeared in Skeptical Inquirer magazine, on the popular chick-centric geektainment site PinkRaygun.com, and in the book 101 Things Every Man Should Know How to Do, in which he advises readers on how to grow a successful beard.
Blogs by this Author
Patrick Stewart and Kate Mulgrew will be on a panel together at this year's Dragon*Con in Atlanta, Georgia the first weekend of September. Will they argue over who was the most boring starship c...
I'm not one to complain too much about hipsters. Sure, the guy at the bar this weekend in the skinny jeans and porkpie hat sort of annoyed me when he rolled up on his single gear bicycle and sta...
Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas and Sen. Mary Landrieu of my home state, Louisiana, have teamed up to introduce a bill that would ban the creation of human/animal hybrids at the federal level. It m...
At this point, there's an iPhone app for just about anything you want to do. But what makes the new purity ring app unique is its ability to help you not do something. Fuck people, that is...
If there's one thing I've learned from BBC America, it's that British reality shows are just as stupid as ours. And if there are two things I've learned from BBCA, the other one has to do with t...
I'm no expert on Italian people or their culture. I understand that they enjoy neverending salad bowls and detest Koopa Troopas, but that's about it. On a trip to Rome, I thought about exploring the r...
There seems to be a pretty violent backlash against Battlestar Galactica's series finale, so here's another essay of support. It's cross-posted at the excellent geektainment website Pink Raygun,...
I often run into coworkers on my lunch break. There aren't a lot of restaurants to choose from around here, so it's usually the Mexican place or the Chinese place or the Mexican place staffed en...
It's been a while since I posted here, but I just had to tell you about something that happened to be over the holidays.First of all, I shouldn’t have been surprised when the gentleman called me...
It’s probably too strong to say I grew up hating Doctor Who. I’d only seen bits and pieces in the wee hours of the night on PBS. Not nearly enough to form an opinion other th...
