A local literacy program announced its spring book selection today for Waco’s youth. One Book, One Waco is blasting off their largest campaign ever with their spring read The Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam for middle school through college students. Younger readers can enjoy Max Goes to Jupiter by Jeffrey Bennett. Space-X is one of […]
Colorado Parent – January, 2009 A dog in space? Sure, why not. In Max Goes to Jupiter, the newest book from the award-winning Max Adventure series, Boulder author, astrophysicist and father of two, Jeffrey Bennett, sends feisty Max, a 100-pound Rottweiler into the solar system. What started out as a story Bennett told his son […]
The Daily Camera – December 24, 2008 Author: Laura Snider After helping to set up a colony on the moon and galloping across the red sands of Mars, Max the rottweiler died. Now his grandson (whose real name is Cosmo, but who goes by Max anyway) is continuing the rottweilers-in-space legacy, this time with a […]
Happy holidays! Lots of exciting space news, starting with the current conjunction of Venus and Jupiter that you must not miss (see item 1 below). And I’m especially excited to report that the Voyage Scale Model Solar System is now spreading to communities around the world (see item 5 below); if you’d like to bring […]
Ask The Science Guru Ian Maclean — The Cosmos and our place in it. Part 1 we discuss life in our solar system and the possibility of finding it beyond our own blue green planet. Part 2 we discuss life beyond our solar system just what it may look like and what it means for […]
WICN Public Radio Interview – Jeffrey Bennett: more on the search for extra-terrestrial life. Is there life on other planets in our solar system? Is there a galactic civilization that occupies this tiny end of the universe? If there are aliens out there, how come we haven’t bumped into them yet? As Enrico Fermi put […]
Astrophysicist Dr. Jeffrey Bennett talks about the scientific reasoning behind his belief that exterrestrial life likely exists but not necessarily in the forms that we see in popular media. A fascinating guest, Dr. Bennett makes his case quite convincingly. Click here to choose other listening options.
Dr. Jeffrey Bennett answers questions with host Dee Andrews.
Hello everyone, The economy and politics have dominated the news, but there are happenings in space, too. So read on for my space news update, as well as brief entries about the economic crisis and Columbus Day… Hope you enjoy it. I welcome your replies. Before I begin the news, just a quick update on […]
This article appeared in The Free Lance-Star Aliens are commonplace in the movies, and polls show that a substantial fraction of Americans also believe that aliens are here among us, visiting our world in UFOs. Scientists also take aliens seriously, though we remain skeptical of claims that they are already here, dropping debris in Roswell, […]
