Originally posted at Earth Protect. “One reason we use energy so lavishly today is that the price of energy does not include all of the social costs of producing it.” — President Richard Nixon, 1971 Politics have turned upside down. As the quote from President Nixon reminds us, protecting the environment was once an issue […]
Dr. Bennett’s keynote presentation for the Kentucky Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges.
Check out the book on the desk! Popular television show “The Big Bang Theory” (Season 5, Episode 7) used one of Jeff’s book as a prop!
UNIVERSAL QUESTION: Astrophysicist lays out scientific case that explores why we may not be alone Dr. Jeffrey Bennett stuck to scientific protocol Nov. 30 to address the notion of extraterrestrial life at the bi-annual Sherlin Lecture on Astronomy and Space Science, sticking to what is proven vs. what is proselytized. But it the longtime astrophysicist’s […]
Dear Friends, Forty years ago today, Apollo 17 Moon walkers Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt finished their lunar excursion and blasted back off from the Moon’s surface. For them, it was the beginning of their journey home (after rendezvous in lunar orbit with the command module and its pilot Ronald Evans). For the human race, […]
Dr. Bennett and Astronaut Alvin Drew discuss the space program and Story Time From Space.
“Follow your dreams, study hard, and someday you’ll live in a world as wonderful as the one we imagine in my books.” Scientist and author Jeffrey Bennett has not been to the moon—yet. He hopes eventually to teach at the University of the Moon, where Girl Scouts will be among the students and their families […]
Two books with ties to CU win Colorado Book Awards Todd Neff’s “From Jars to Stars,” and Jeff Bennett’s “Math for Life,” two books with ties to the University of Colorado Boulder, were awarded a Colorado Book Award in Aspen this summer in the history and general nonfiction categories, respectively. Winning this honor “provides some […]
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Originally posted at Earth Protect. On average, we are all about 50 to 60 years older than our grandchildren are or will be. That is, if you are a high school student today, your grandchildren are likely to be high school students somewhere around the year 2065. If you are in your prime career years […]
