Blogs

I’m currently a contributer at Skepchick where I write about astronomy, education, current news, and cute animals.

Where I’ve written in the past:

• CosmoQuest Blog – (May 2012 – January 2015) CosmoQuest is a virtual research facility to do, to learn, and to collaborate on astronomy citizen science.
  • Your Science Results Explained, Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 – 2014 – 2015
• CosmoQuest Educators’ Zone – (March 2013 – December 2014) The CosmoQuest Educator Zone is the place to find engaging and easy-to-use astronomy education resources.
• Discovery News: Space (via Wayback Machine) – (April 2010 – April 2014) News about space and astronomy, for Discovery Communications.

See also, a collection of my favorite, and your favorite, posts from the early days of this blog.

• Video Killed the Radio Sky – 5 January 2012
• Travelogues, South Africa – June to September 2011
  • Part 1 – To Africa
  • Part 2 – Cape Town
  • Part 3 – To the Karoo
  • Part 4 – Expanding PAPER
• AstroJargon Series
  • AGN – 7 March 2010
  • Parsec – 15 March 2010
  • HI – 27 March 2010
  • Blazar – 7 April 2010
  • “Cluster Shadows” and the SZ Effect – 19 January 2011
• Solar Dynamics Observatory Series – February 2010
  • SDO: Learning to Live with our Sun
  • Shuttle Launch Attempt, Take One
  • LIFTOFF!
  • SDO Almost Ready to Go
  • SDO IS GO!!!
  • SDO and Space Weather
• Ruby Payne-Scott, pioneer of radio astronomy – 24 March 2009
• Radio Astronomy on the Moon – 23 July 2008