Here are two interviews of Jeffrey Bennett before the August 21, 2017 eclipse:
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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 […]
VIDEO: Jeff Interviewed for 9News Climate Change Story
Featured on 9NEWS Maya Rodriguez, KUSA
Denver Post: For Boulder astrophysicist, it’s all relativity
Published in the Denver Post As an astrophysicist, Jeffrey Bennett grapples with big ideas all the time. When the cosmos is your beat, your thinking has to be as unbounded as a Voyager spacecraft. So in this centennial year of Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, Bennett has taken on a big task: A lecture tour […]
RADIO: Boston Herald Radio Interview — Relativity, Space Exploration, Global Warming
Hear a wide-ranging, 13-minute interview at Boston Herald Radio, in which we covered topics including relativity, space exploration, global warming, and much more…
VIDEO: “What is Relativity?” on Barry Kibrick’s TV show.
Barry Kibrick hosts in-depth interviews with authors on his outstanding book show, Between the Lines. I’ve now had the pleasure of appearing on his show four times, which he tells me makes me his most frequent guest. Here is the show for What is Relativity?’s, which we taped in November 2014 and aired on PBS […]
New Article about Story Time From Space
Great article from the Penticton Western News: http://www.pentictonwesternnews.com/news/309929341.html Penticton woman takes reading program to space with NASA Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata reads from Jeffrey Bennett’s book The Wizard Who Saved the World aboard the Insternational Space Station. Penticton’s Patricia Tribe came up with the idea of promoting science through astronauts reading and doing experiments from space […]
The Relativity Tour
See a recording of Jeff’s relativity tour lecture for the Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures (recorded May 6, 2015 at Foothill College’s Smithwick Theater): See a recording of Jeff’s relativity tour lecture at Fiske planetarium: This year (2015) marks the 100th anniversary of Einstein’s publication of his general theory of relativity. Today, this theory lies at […]