The following post also appears on my Huffington Post blog. ALSO: Learn about my 2015 Relativity Tour… Have you seen Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar yet? It’s generating a lot of discussion both about the story and the science, and as one of the characters explains in the movie (“that’s relativity”), the science focuses around Einstein’s theory of […]
In preparation for the 2014 USA Science and Engineering Festival (Washington, DC), I wrote a post on five amazing science ideas for the Huffington Post. It looks nicer on their site, but here’s the text below: Five Science Thoughts to Blow Your Mind Jeffrey Bennett I’m very excited to be presenting at the 2014 […]
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 […]
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, redistrictingDownload the formatted article from Astrobeat Magazine (PDF) Editor’s Introduction To those of us who teach astronomy, Dr. Bennett is known as the lead author of one of the most popular introductory astronomy textbooks in the U.S. He also writes textbooks in other fields and popular books for adults. Less well known is the fact […]
I’ve given my Beyond UFOs lecture on numerous occasions, but this was the first time it was professionally recorded. This particular presentation was to the MUFON international conference in Denver. Anyone interested in booking a live lecture should contact me directly.
Published in Space.com Imagine that you could send a single short message through time to anyone who has ever lived, telling them one modern fact that would give them hope for the future of humanity. I don’t think you could find anything more powerful than this: Human beings have walked on the Moon, and upon […]
Barry Kibrick hosts in-depth interviews with authors on his outstanding book show, Between the Lines. I’ve had the pleasure of appearing on his show twice, a few years ago for my book On the Cosmic Horizon, and more recently for Beyond UFOs, which we taped in June 2009. Click below to watch the show. (By […]
This article appeared in The Los Angeles Times as “Galileo Put Us in Our Place” The revolution was not his alone. The idea was actually an ancient one, and other scientists had embraced it along the way. But it took Galileo and the telescope he built to prove the truth to the masses: Earth is […]
This article appeared in The Free Lance-Star Aliens are commonplace in the movies, and polls show that a substantial fraction of Americans also believe that aliens are here among us, visiting our world in UFOs. Scientists also take aliens seriously, though we remain skeptical of claims that they are already here, dropping debris in Roswell, […]
