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Smithsonian.com - Interview with Sylvester James Gates
Why theoretical physicist Sylvester James Gates sees no conflict between science and religion.
Week in Geek - Stellar neighbors
Weekly post for The Rachel Maddow show featuring the Breakthrough Listen initiative.
FANGRRLS - #SpaceTwitter and the current race into space
A breakdown of who is getting off the planet these days and why.
Week in Geek - All space all the time
Weekly post for The Rachel Maddow show featuring a week's worth of rocket launches.
Week in Geek - Crowded House
Weekly post for The Rachel Maddow Show featuring a new estimate for the number of galaxies in the Universe - up to two trillion!
Week in Geek - 3D Earth
Weekly post for The Rachel Maddow Show on a new a digital elevation map of Earth’s surface by a pair of German satellites.
Slow Factory - Celestial Send-off
Image highlights from ESA's Rosetta mission.
FANGRRLS - 5 Things to Know About ESA's Rosetta Mission
A farewell to ESA's Rosetta mission.
Week in Geek - Hubble redux
Weekly post for The Rachel Maddow Show featuring new data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) survey of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field.
Week in Geek - Map of the stars
Weekly post for The Rachel Maddow show featuring the first data release of the Gaia satellite working to map a billion stars in our galaxy.
Week in Geek - Whale vs Whale
Weekly post for The Rachel Maddow Show featuring altruistic behavior by humpback whales intervening during Orca hunts.
Moment of Geek - Perseid Meteor Shower
A brief explanation of the Perseids and how to best view them.
Smithsonian.com - Perseid Meteor Shower
I wrote about the Perseid Meteor Shower and where it comes from for Smithsonian.com. Links in the article for best viewing tips.
Week in Geek – Science like a BOSS
Weekly post for The Rachel Maddow Show featuring new results from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), a project within the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
Week in Geek – Eyes in the sky
Weekly post for The Rachel Maddow Show featuring the International Cooperation for Animal Research Using Space (ICARUS) experiment to be installed on the International Space Station.
Smithsonian.com - We Are Now in Orbit Around Jupiter
Article for Smithsonian.com on the Juno spacecraft's arrival at Jupiter, written from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory where I participated as a member of the press.
Now.Space - A Jupiter Retrospective
Article for Now.Space on all the previous spacecraft to visit Jupiter in advance of the arrival of NASA's Juno spacecraft on Monday, July 4, 2016.
Week in Geek – Jupiter or bust
Weekly post for The Rachel Maddow Show featuring NASA's Juno spacecraft's upcoming arrival at Jupiter.
Week in Geek – Earth from above
Weekly post for The Rachel Maddow Show featuring a three million image data dump from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument aboard NASA's Terra satellite.