(Old Post) History Channel
A film crew for the History Channel program, "The Universe," came up to Santa Cruz to interview me for an episode that will appear next fall. It turned out to be quite an adventure, because it was extremely windy! The wind blew their reflector (a piece of white foam...
(Old Post) Moon and a Mocha III
Tonight I presented "Moon and a Mocha III" at the Capitola Book Cafe. Once again the Santa Cruz Astronomy Club provided telescopes. Some clueless customer at the drug store next door saw one of the telescope stands with a wire coming out of it, thought it was a bomb,...
(Old Post) Moon and a Mocha II
The Capitola Book Cafe hosted my second "Moon and a Mocha" event on the night of the lunar eclipse. (Last total lunar eclipse until 2010!) I told some of the lore and science of eclipses, while in the sky behind me the Earth's shadow blocked out the Moon. Even though...
(Old Post) Joint Mathematics Meetings
This week I went to the Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Diego. One highlight was an exceedingly cool animated film of "Flatland," produced by Seth Caplan, directed by Jeffrey Travis and Dano Johnson, and starring Martin Sheen as Arthur Square. I have written an...
(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 audience was much more interested...
The Art of Why
