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Gravity Takes A Starring Role — But It May Not Be What You Think
Note: An illustrated version of this article, with a list of additional teaching resources, was published as the Fall 2013 issue of The Universe in the Classroom (PDF). Gravity plays a starring role in the new movie of the same title, but it’s not the role that most people think. Before I explain, let me […]
Kirkus Reviews “Back Story” on Max
I was asked by Kirkus Reviews to write the following short piece about my experiences in publishing Big Kid Science books and explaining how Max ended up going into orbit . Click here to read it on the Kirkus site. Back Story: From Low-Earth Sales to an Actual Book Launch Imagine real astronauts aboard the International […]
Math for Life author Q & A
I was recently asked to answer a series of questions about Math for Life, so I’ve posted the Q&A set below. For additional information about the book, please see the Math for Life web site. 1. How is “math for life” different than the math we learned in school? A: There’s math involved in virtually […]
The Root Cause of Congressional Dysfunction
If pro is the opposite of con, what’s the opposite of progress? — widely circulated; attributed to Will Harvey If you really want to understand the root cause of Washington’s dysfunction, start by trying to answer this simple multiple choice question: Among the 435 individual races for Congress that took place in the 2012 election, […]
gerrymander, redistrictingVIDEO: Beyond UFOs Lecture 2013
This is an updated version of my Beyond UFOs lecture, presented on June 29, 2013. Anyone interested in booking a live lecture should contact me directly.
Publication Day! Max Goes to the Space Station and Math for Life
Publication Day! Max Goes to the Space Station and Math for Life (Updated Edition) both now available. My latest books for children and grownups both published officially today. I hope you’ll check them out. Here’s a brief bit of information: Max Goes to the Space Station: I wrote this prequel to Max Goes to the Moon […]
2013 Science Communication Award for Max Goes to the Moon
Posted by the American Institute of Physics. Authors Tom Siegfried and Jeffrey Bennett honored. Washington, D.C., Oct. 30, 2013 — The American Institute of Physics (AIP) has named a journalist and a children’s book author as winners of the 2013 AIP Science Communications Awards for their works on the discovery of the Higgs boson and […]
Space News Update: October 12, 2013
A lot has happened since I last posted a Space News Update, so I’ll only be able to cover a few highlights, with a focus on upcoming events. Hope you find it useful. Contents: MAVEN — Next Mission to Mars Launches in November Story Time From Space — Launch in December The NEW Fiske Planetarium […]
Teaching Children about Climate Change
Originally posted at Earth Protect. “Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.” — H.G. Wells, The Outline of History, 1920 There may be no better illustration of the sentiment in the H.G. Wells quotation than that which we find in the issue of climate change, aka global warming. The evidence […]