Capitola Book Cafe update

I have some exciting news to pass along about Capitola Book Cafe’s “Survive & Thrive” campaign. As I wrote earlier, they were trying to raise $285,000 by June 30 in order to keep their for-profit business going and also to start a non-profit...

Help Save Capitola Book Cafe!

One of Santa Cruz County’s independent booksellers, the Capitola Book CafĂ©, has just launched a fund-raising campaign called Survive & Thrive. Not to put too fine a point on it, they are in danger of going out of business. That’s the...

Welcome to my Redesigned Website!

Just in time for the publication of The Universe in Zero Words, I have dramatically updated the look of my website, and made some changes behind the scenes that should enable me to keep the site up-to-date much more easily. You might notice a small number of posts...

(Old Post) Capitola Book Cafe

The Capitola Book Cafe hosted “Moon and a Mocha,” a community science event. I showed clips from the episode of “The Universe” that I appeared in, and talked about some of the science that didn’t get in the show. As it turned out, the...