The Daily Camera published this article about our efforts to update the CU Scale Model Solar System, being led by Jimmy Negus.
Totality by Big Kid Science: Now Fully Updated and Available in Spanish!
Press Release Totality by Big Kid Science: The Premier FREE App for Learning About Solar Eclipses — Now Fully Updated and Available in Spanish! [Boulder, Colorado, April 19, 2018] Big Kid Science, an educational company founded by astrophysicist Dr. Jeffrey Bennett, released what was widely called the best app for preparing for the 2017 total […]
Climate Change Education: Hints and Tips
The following article was posted in Foreward Reviews. Click here to read the original post, which is formatted a little nicer than reproduced below. At the end of The Wizard Who Saved the World, says author Jeffrey Bennett, we want kids to leave any school discussion of global warming with the belief that they, too, […]
Second Life: Reflections on a 40th Reunion, Life to Come, and The Cosmic Perspective
I’m soon to be attending my 40th high school reunion, and found myself feeling a bit down. Forty years is a long time, and I’m sure that anyone else of similar age knows that at this point, it’s easy to think that our best days are behind us. We look back at the promise that […]
Scott Kelly’s Time Dilation
I was asked to comment about how time dilation affected astronaut Scott Kelly during his “year in space,” leading to this article at the Huffington Post: Neil DeGrasse Tyson Says Scott Kelly Aged More Slowly In Space, And He’s Right We’ve got the math to prove it. by: David Freeman Astronaut Scott Kelly got countless […]
What Are Gravitational Waves, and Why Should You Care?
This post also appears (with an extra illustration) on my Huffington Post blog page. The short answer: Gravitational waves are an important prediction of Einstein’s general theory of relativity, published a century ago. Because this theory changed the way we understand the nature of space, time, and gravity, it also fundamentally changed our perception of […]
Daily Camera: Boulder Author Sends 7th Book to Space
This article was published in the Boulder Daily Camera. By Amy Bounds, Daily Camera Staff Writer Jeffrey Bennett, a Boulder astrophysicist and educator, recently sent his seventh science book into space. An advance copy of his latest children’s book, “I, Humanity,” was among the 7,700 pounds of cargo successfully delivered Dec. 9 to astronauts on […]
Space News 12/30/15: Three Iconic Videos of 2015
****************************** This is one of the “a few times a year” Space News E-mails from author Jeff Bennett. You can subscribe with the form on the lower right side of this blog page. ******************************* Dear Friends, With 2015 is coming to a close, I thought I’d share what to me are three of the most […]
VIDEO: Jeff Interviewed for 9News Climate Change Story
Featured on 9NEWS Maya Rodriguez, KUSA
Space News (9/22/15): Sunday’s “Sorta Super, Not So Bloody, Harvest Lunar Eclipse”! (and more…)
Dear Friends, For anyone North and South America and most of Europe and Africa, this Sunday night (Sept. 27) is a not-to-miss sky event: a total lunar eclipse. Better yet, for all of you in the continental U.S., this particular eclipse occurs in the evening — which means you can see most or all of […]