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It’s September, 2020. The United States is in turmoil as we begin to collectively realize the cost of centuries of racism and oppression toward everyone who has been marginalized by the entrenched white, cisgender, male leaders in all branches of our society. Our biases are built into all aspects of our world, including the works … Read more

Last summer turned out to be a bit busier than anticipated. I had a press release, traveled a lot, supervised two excellent summer research students, submitted a paper, taught a class… well, you get the point. Now it’s time for my annual DragonCon recap. In addition to Live Astronomy (more below), I did a few other things … Read more

I’m back! The course v1.0 went off fairly well and I’ll be teaching a modified version of it in July. I have quite a few new posts in the works, so expect some updates soon. In the meantime, here’s a nice article about an Astronomy on Tap event that I spoke at last week.

I swear I didn’t Netflix everything on Peter Boyle’s IMDb page. Outland is just a run-of-the-mill bad sci-fi film starring Sean Connery. It’s essentially a western set on Jupiter’s moon Io. That means there’s not much to report from a science perspective. In the opening credits they mention that Io has 1/6 the Earth’s gravity but … Read more