Note for Amazon Customers

I’ve already received some very nice compliments this week both on the new website and on the forthcoming book! Thanks to everyone who has visited. One person e-mailed me to ask why amazon.com does not have “Look Inside the Book” enabled for 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) 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...

(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...