Kindness at 30,000ft
Yea for Firetrucks Earlier today I wrote on Google+ that there are day’s when you run head first into the tail-end of the probability distribution. Today was one of those days, and now that it’s over...
View ArticleA Rocket Car Future (for some)
Blue Origin Rocket Currently I’m attending the Next Generation Sub-Orbital Research (and Education) Conference in Palo Alto, California. I’m staring at all my notes struggling with finding a coherent...
View ArticleSlow Science & Peer-Review
Hourglass by borabora on Flickr Science moves slowly. That may seem like an odd statement when the pace of press releases and breaking news seems to imply that new discoveries are flying fast and...
View ArticleOf NASA and Budgets
Austerity by 401 on Flickr Fine print: While I receive funding from NASA for some of my work, this blog post written by me as a private citizen. Today was the NASA Town Hall; that 1 or more hour window...
View ArticleCassini, Cassini, Cassini
Here at the Lunar and Planertary Sciences’ Conference, I think it is safe to say that Cassini is in the house. From weather on Titan, to seasonal variations on Enceladus, to cracking of Dione, you...
View ArticleMake the World Better
Yesterday at TAM2012 in Las Vegas I gave the hardest talk I’ve ever given. I present it annotated below. The out pouring of love I’ve received has been truly overwhelming, and I thank all of you for...
View ArticleStopping Harassment Starts Here – the shirt
Over the weekend I gave a talk at TAM2012 that discussed as one part of the talk the issues of harassment and discrimination that minority groups to often face. In order to call attention this issue I...
View ArticleYou can create the Space Funding Solution
Last week I looked at our budget for Astrosphere (the non-profit that supports 365 Days of Astronomy, and along with SIUE Astronomy Cast, and CosmoQuest) and realized we have about 2 months operating...
View ArticleRed August: A Mars Month
Mars (Credit: NASA / USGS) The month of August is named after Augustus Ceasar, the Roman Emperor who oversaw the expansion of the Roman Empire in the years after Julius Ceasar’s death on the Ides of...
View ArticleIAU, Pluto, and naming P5
The 2012 meeting of the International Astronomical Union is about to begin in Beijing, China. I’ll be attending the second week of the meeting, and talking on the very last day (yikes!) The 2 constant...
View ArticleThank you, Neil Armstrong
A Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation artist’s concept depicting mankind’s first walk on another celestial body. When I heard Neil Armstrong had died, my first reaction was to stop walking and...
View ArticleIAU, I’m lost within you
This morning I woke up in Beijing. This wasn’t entirely surprising since I’d fallen asleep at about 32,000 ft on AA187, inbound to PEK from ORD. Nonetheless, no matter how much you know logically that...
View ArticlePink Tasks (post 1 of 2)
In general, I’m not someone who is an activist feminist. My focus has always been on science research and education, but sometimes gender issues can’t be ignored. If you saw my talk from TAM2012, you...
View ArticlePink Tasks (post 2/2)
In yesterday’s women in science lunch, we ended with this question: Why do so many women remain silent about all the day-to-day micro-inequities and minor discriminations and injustices they deal with....
View ArticleDeveloping a better world, one astronomy lesson at a time
Earlier to day I realized I was one day off. I showed up for a meeting on communicating astronomy to the public and found myself in a meeting on generating more accurate world coordinate systems for...
View ArticleCosmic Castaways – You’re Invited!
My job let’s me do some of the most awesome things. One of those things is narrating planetarium shows. My 2nd planetarium show is premiering Oct. 4 at the Ward Beecher Planetarium in Youngstown, OH...
View ArticleTweeting from an Asteroid
Disclaimer: I am not the human behind the @AsteroidMappers feed. I have the password, but so does everyone else working on CosmoQuest, and I know that since AsteroidMappers launched Saturday, I’ve...
View ArticleThe internet – this place I live – has a culture. Srsly.
Online culture needs to be recognized as a unique culture. (TL;DR version: *The internet has its own valuable culture. Those of you who only see online media as a way to promote your projects to...
View ArticleLast Minute Giving
Currently I’m somewhere between the Yucatan Peninsula and Florida. I’ve been at sea on the Norwegian Pearl since Dec 16 for the End of the World (not) Cruise, and all intentions of buying gifts and...
View ArticleLooking for inspiration
I have to admit, life has gotten sufficiently busy that I’ve lost all track of time and place. Yesterday, waking up in Austin for SXSW Interactive, I was reminded by the intertubes that it is Women’s...
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