Weekly post for The Rachel Maddow Show featuring the theoretical prediction of Planet Nine - a planet-sized object hiding in the Kuiper Belt.
Astronomy on Tap - STEMFEST
I gave a talk on Star Wars planets at Astronomy on Tap as part of STEM-fest 2016.
Week in Geek - Giant reptile
Weekly post for The Rachel Maddow Show featuring the discovery of a fossilized giant reptile in the Tunisian desert.
Story Collider - STEMfest 2016
I participated in The Story Collider and told a story about my road to recovery after open-heart surgery.
Week in Geek - Moon/No Moon
Weekly post for The Rachel Maddow Show featuring the science of Star Wars in anticipation of The Force Awakens.
Week in Geek - Boogying birds
Weekly post for The Rachel Maddow Show featuring birds that court each other by dancing faster than the human eye can see.
Week in Geek - Visualizing Kepler
Weekly post for The Rachel Maddow Show featuring multiple visualizations for exoplanets the Kepler Mission has detected to date.
Week in Geek - Where are they now?
Weekly post for The Rachel Maddow Show featuring the one year mark of ESA's Rosetta mission to Comet 67P.
Sloan Science in Film Forum
A collaboration between scientists and filmmakers sponsored by the Sloan Foundation.
Nautilus - How to recognize a black hole
A look at AGN unification on the Nautilus blog, aka when supermassive black holes have an identity crisis.
Week in Geek - Insect scuba
Weekly post for The Rachel Maddow Show featuring water beetles that can drag air underwater with them.
Week in Geek - Low pressure pull
Weekly post for The Rachel Maddow Show featuring the fluid dynamics of how jellyfish pull rather than push to propel themselves through the water.
Week in Geek - Rube Slowberg
Weekly post for The Rachel Maddow show featuring the world's slowest Rube Goldberg machine.
Radiolab - Tell Tale Hearts
My heart was featured on Radiolab!
How To Do Everything - Episode 197
My turn as the guest "expert" on How To Do Everything: Episode 197.
NBC News - What Can We Learn From Visiting Ceres?
I talk about Ceres and the asteroid belt for the NBC News video series: 30 Seconds to Know.
Disney Junior - Miles From Tomorrowland
My fifteen minutes of Disney fame as a cosmic explorer for "Miles From Tomorrowland."
Nautilus - A Quick Spin Around the Big Dipper
An interactive look at three well-known constellations/asterisms that are merely terrestrial illusions.
NBC News - What is a Goldilocks planet?
I explain what it means for a planet to be in the habitable zone of its star.
NBC News - Why is Mars red?
I explain where Mars got its characteristic color from for the NBC News video series: 30 Seconds to Know.