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In Russia, Apophis impacts YOU!
I don’t spend a lot of time worrying about actual asteroid impacts — I think about them, but the odds of a big impact are too low to panic about. We should be concerned, and absolutely we should take steps in case we find The Big One head...
Anniversary of a cosmic blast
Five years ago today — on December 27, 2004 — the Earth was attacked by a cosmic blast. The scale of this onslaught is nearly impossible to exaggerate. The flood of gamma and X-rays that washed over the Earth was detected by several sate...
Last minute holiday gift advice, Part 2: books!
OK, this is it. Last day to buy stuff in a panic before Christmas. What to do? I suggest the bookstore. Who doesn’t like books? And it just so happens I have a few to recommend. Death from the Skies!You may not know this, but I wrote a book. ...
Two podcasts, no waiting
For those of you who simply cannot get enough of my dulcet voice, I have recently appeared on two podcasts: 1) Monster Talk, with Blake Stacey, Karen Stollznow, and Ben Radford. We talk Martian bacteria, Godzilla, and Five Million Years to Earth, one...
Lawyer of DEATH
This is cool, and unexpected: the University of Chicago has an annual feature where they ask what their faculty what was the last good book they read. Guess what book faculty member (and Holy Haleakala, Chief Judge for the Seventh Circuit United Stat...
Midwest megameteor makes media madness
By now you’ve probably heard of the extremely bright fireball over Utah last Wednesday, proving once again that really cool stuff happens when I’m on travel and can’t write about it. Worse, it was seen from Denver, which means I mig...
More 2012 debunkery
I did an interview with reporter Maria Sciullo of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette a few days ago, and her article is now online. I’m glad she talked to Anthony Aveni; I’m reading his book The End of Time: The Maya Mystery of 2012 and it’...
BA talk at Rensselaer Thursday
For those of you in the upstate New York area, I’ll be giving my Death from the Skies! talk at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI for those in the know) this Thursday, November 12, at 7:30 p.m. It’s free and open, which I guess means t...
Are We Alone, 2012 repeat
The "Are We Alone" SETI podcast this week is a repeat from August, but in case you missed it the topic is 2012 and other Hollywood movies where science is abused, and I talk about the real ways the world might end. Listen before going to se...
The Universe Has Us in Its Crosshairs
Looking for something to do this weekend, and for the next month? Are you anywhere near New York City? Then I am very pleased to let you know that a group of artists there have created an exhibit based on my book, Death from the Skies! The exhibit i...
Carl Sagan Day: November 7
If you’re anywhere near southern Florida on Saturday, November 7, then you need to get yourself over to the Broward College, which is holding the very first celebration of Carl Sagan Day! It’s in honor of Sagan’s birthday, which i...
Death metal from the Skies!
What we would do without Twitter? If not for that 140 character service, I never would have found out that Dr. Chaotica wrote and performed a song called "Death from the Skies!", based on what is considered by some (OK, just me) to be the f...
Felicia Day collides galaxies!
Regular readers know I have an marginally unhealthy crush on Felicia Day. Of course, so do millions of other people, so she’s probably relatively safe from me. But are we safe from… colliding galaxies? Apparently, only Felicia knows for s...
TAM London video 3: Brian Cox
Regular readers know Brian Cox: he’s a physicist, a rock star, a TV science documentary host, a skeptic, and a friend. At TAM London I did a very brief interview with him. Since he works at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, I had something o...
Death from Above
No, this isn’t what you’re thinking. The comedy group LoadingReadyRun does a satirical newscast where the topic is, well, see for yourself. I think someone’s been reading my book ....
Followup commentary of DEATH
At Dragon*Con, I did a dramatic reading from my book, Death from the Skies! which was a lot of fun. I read from Chapter 1, about asteroid and comet impacts, and BABloggee Brandon Alexander recorded it. After the actual reading I talked about impacts ...
Paperback cover of DEATH
I love the cover of the paperback version of my book Death from the Skies!, but this guy loves it a lot. I knew the cover art was done by a talented guy, but didn’t realize just how wide a swath this guy cuts in the comic industry. That makes m...
Dramatic reading OF DEATH
On the last day of Dragon*Con — thus guaranteeing me to be tired, brain dead, unfocused, and generally zonked — I gave a dramatic reading from the first chapter of my book Death From the Skies!, which just came out in paperback and so I s...
