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 […]
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.
Miami University (Ohio) selected Beyond UFOs as their Summer Reading Program book for the Class of 2012, requiring all 3,700+ incoming students to read and discuss the book. As part of the program, Dr. Bennett delivered the followiing remarks all these students, along with faculty, administrators, and some parents and upper class students — a […]
The Daily Camera Author: Todd Neff – Camera Staff Writer The John Grisham of astronomy textbooks lives in north Boulder. Jeffrey Bennett, a University of Colorado-trained astrophysicist and longtime instructor there, is known locally for his children’s books “Max Goes to the Moon” and “Max Goes to Mars.” But these well-regarded, Rottweiler-centric efforts were sidelights […]
The Daily Camera – September 28, 2004 Author: Mary Butler – Camera Staff Writer Jeffrey Bennett once dreamed of becoming an astronaut like Neil Armstrong and the others who flew the famous Apollo missions that landed on the moon six times between his 10th and 13th birthdays. The 45-year-old Boulder astrophysicist, teacher and author never […]
