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Description: The world is a funny, funny place. How else can you explain helium’s ability to improve your singing voice, the Vatican’s planetarium, and the innate joys of bubble wrap? But oddly, science, our best tool to explain the world around us, is often considered boring, complicated and intimidating. Well, we don’t think it has to be. We are the Galileo Players, a professional sketch comedy and improv troupe that focuses on making audiences laugh using scientific characters and events as inspiration. We delight in celebrating the world through a scientific eye, challenging people and making them laugh and think at the same time. We tour our theatrical comedy shows around the country performing at colleges, festivals, scientific conferences, and corporat

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"The DNA Show" Galileo Players Chicago's favorite science-based sketch comedy troupe returns to the Field Museum to bring their unique spin to an all-ages look at DNA and genetics. Saturday, May 3rd, 2008 at 2:00pm Chicago Field Museum's James Simpson Theater (600 seats) Free with...

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Quirky Science Digest Host Mathew Arden interviews Astronaut Chuck Malone in this Lost Pilot episode. We dug up the lost pilot episode of Science Digest from 1981! Check out Mathew Arden's insightful and hilarious interview with Astronaut Chuck Malone about the moon, space travel, gravity,...

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Quirky Science Digest Host Mathew Arden interviews Particle Physicist Dr. Geoffrey Yale. Galileo Players latest episode of Science Digest features Galileo founder and Second City's own Matt Hovde and Second City alumnus John Hildreth. Enjoy!

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Quirky Science Digest Host Mathew Arden interviews Astronomer Rhoda Hartleib. Galileo Players latest episode was written by Galileo founder and new SNL writer, Tom Flanigan and features Galileo founder and Second City's own Matt Hovde and Broadway & film star and Second City alum Jackie...

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