Eureka Publicity: Blurbs and Talks
Eureka: Discovering Your Inner Scientist has officially been sent to the printers, so we’re at the phase of things where I don’t have anything to do but think about publicity. There are some reviews...
View ArticleEureka: “Fun, Diverse, and Accessible”
The exciting news of the week: Eureka: Discovering Your Inner Scientist has gotten a starred review in Publishers Weekly. Woo-hoo! They’ve said nice things about my previous two books, but getting the...
View ArticleEureka: Quantum Crosswords
My new book comes out one month from yesterday, or four weeks from tomorrow. Of course, yesterday was Sunday, and tomorrow’s a federal holiday, both lousy times for promotional posts, so I’ll drop this...
View ArticleBenefits of an Academic Day Job
I’ve been quieter than usual here, partly because I’ve been crushingly busy, but primarily because most of the things I want to talk about, I can’t. Not yet, anyway. But I’m still alive, and this...
View ArticleEureka: Bridge to Dark Matter
The first time you hear about dark matter, it sounds kind of crazy– asserting that we’re surrounded by tons of invisible stuff is usually a good way to get locked up. But the process of its discovery...
View ArticleEureka: Collecting the Origin
Almost everybody, regardless of what side they favor in the culture wars, knows that Charles Darwin was the first scientist to come up with the theory of evolution. At least, they think they do. In...
View ArticleAdvent Calendar of Science Stories 1: Famous Exclamation
“…and unless the King comes here himself, I’m not to be disturbed.” “Yes, of course.” The servant bowed out, leaving him alone with the bath. He stepped in, gingerly at first, the water almost too hot...
View ArticleAdvent Calendar of Science Stories 2: Begin at the Beginning
She kneels on the dirt and watches the elder study the rocks she brought. Five fist-sized chunks of red stone, laboriously hacked from an outcrop. Half a day walking there and back, and half a day...
View ArticleEureka Update: Signing, Reviews
A few smallish items regarding Eureka: Discovering Your Inner Scientist: — I’ll be doing a signing at the Open Door bookstore in Schenectady next Sunday, the 14th, from 12-1:30. The Open door is one...
View ArticleAdvent Calendar of Science Stories 3: Iceman
The fungal tea tastes vile, and not for the first time he considers dumping it on the last of the morning’s fire. It does seem to be helping the pain in his gut, though, as the medicine man said it...
View ArticleAdvent Calendar of Science Stories 4: Solstice
The southeastern sky had been lightening for some time, stars slowly fading away. Off to the west, a band of clouds was moving in, obscuring stars as it came, but they wouldn’t make it in time to...
View ArticleEureka Update: Excerpt and Radio Interviews
A couple of quick updates on Eureka publicity, as we get on a plane today to take the kids to Florida for the weekend: — APS News has an excerpt from the chapter on collecting hobbies. This is kind of...
View ArticleAdvent Calendar of Science Stories 5: Philosophers in the Sun
“More wine?” “Hmm? Oh, yes, thank you. Sorry, I was–” “Thinking about mathematics, I wager. Prime numbers was it?” “No, just distracted. It’s this blasted heat.” “It is the longest day of the year.”...
View ArticleAdvent Calendar of Science Stories 6: Party in Mesopotamia
Borne of the flowing water (…) Tenderly cared for by the Ninhursag, Borne of the flowing water (…) Tenderly cared for by the Ninhursag, Having founded your town by the sacred lake, She finished its...
View ArticleAdvent Calendar of Science Stories 7: Apocryphal Empress
Following on yesterday’s story of transformative discoveries starting by accident, we’ll jump from the Middle East to the Far East for the probably apocryphal story of the Empress Leizu (also sometimes...
View ArticleAdvent Calendar of Science Stories 8: The First GMO
This entry doesn’t have a fictionalized story both because I’m on vacation, and because I don’t think there’s a single dramatic turning point in this particular story. It’s probably one of the most...
View ArticleEight Things You Need to Know About Science
Copies of Eureka: Discovering Your Inner Scientist have been turning up in the wild for a while now, but the officially official release date is today (available from Amazon, Barnes and Noble,...
View ArticleAdvent Calendar of Science Stories 9: Newton’s Bodkin
I tooke a bodkine gh & put it betwixt my eye & [the] bone as neare to [the] backside of my eye as I could: & pressing my eye [with the] end of it (soe as to make [the] curvature a, bcdef...
View ArticleEureka: Discovering Your Inner Scientist: Release Day!
Today is the official release date for Eureka: Discovering Your Inner Scientist, so of course there are a bunch of exciting things happening: — There’s a short excerpt at the Science of Us blog from...
View ArticleEureka: The Soundtrack
So, you’ve picked up your copy of the just-released Eureka: Discovering Your Inner Scientist– you have bought a copy, right?– and now you’re thinking “I’d love to curl up and read this, but what should...
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