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Friday, November 9th, 2007
There was a time in the 1980s in comic books where superheroes had to be retooled to make them cooler, often by adding “dark” in front of their name. For example, Frank Miller’s graphic novel The Dark Knight Returns helped revive Batman as a leading character. In the 1990s, that trend hit cosmology with “dark […]
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Thursday, November 8th, 2007
I really liked this article: SPACE.com — SETI: Is It Worth It? This article mirrors my thoughts on basic research and a lot of the points made apply not to just SETI, but to astronomy in general. It behooves us as a curious and thoughtful people to take some time and effort to look around […]
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Monday, November 5th, 2007
Here’s one site about becoming a scientist: Cool Careers in Science What does it take to become a professional scientist? To get into graduate school, persevere, collect a PhD and land a job in the field? A lot of things, but not all obvious to the uninitiated. I used to like to tell people that […]
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
So I got another one of those emails today asking me to do some community service. Astronomical community service. It happens all the time and every professional astronomer is expected to contribute semi-regularly. Often the contribution is relatively minor, like reviewing a paper for one of the journals like Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical […]
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Sunday, September 16th, 2007
This originally ran at www.sfnovelists.com on September 14. Putting it here for my own personal archive. Enjoy! I’m a scientist, a professional astronomer, who writes hard science fiction. I wish it weren’t called “hard†because that makes it sound difficult, when it’s more fun and understandable than most people think. The “hard†really refers to […]
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Tuesday, July 24th, 2007
Chandra :: Photo Album :: 1E 0657-56 :: 21 Aug 06 The issue of the reality of dark matter has kept coming up recently in my life, both in the writing and educational spheres. I recently finished copy edits on the new book (SPIDER STAR will hit stores in March 2008 and I’ll blog about […]
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Monday, December 13th, 2004
Actually, no we don’t. I sometimes hear people say, or see them write in an online forum, that university professors have it easy. They say that we get a job for life and only have to teach a class or two at a time and, gee, isn’t that easy? Hardly. I haven’t posted here in […]
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