I’ll be signing in Albuquerque this weekend, on Saturday the 24th, from 3-4:30pm. The signing will be at Page One, Albuquerque’s biggest independent bookstore. I will be signing The Green Leopard Plague and Other Stories, along with whatever else they have in the store (which should be everything in print, and some other stuff besides.) […]

When I was learning scuba, I was being forever warned about the kind of stuff that many atmospheres of water pressure could do to you. Mythbusters had an episode that illustrated this very nicely, and Carrie kindly pointed out the relevant video on YouTube. They stuffed a dead pig in a hardhat diving suit, dropped […]

Behold a false-color image of Messier Object 27, better known as the Dumbbell Nebula. False-color images of astronomical objects are not unusual, of course, but what’s unique about this one is that I created it my ownself, while noodling around on software the final day of LaunchPad. And the absolutely cool thing is that you […]

So I’ve been living and breathing astronomy for four whole days now, and it’s producing conversations like this: ME: I’ve been observing the Wal-Mart parking lot, and I’ve noted twelve Class O supergiant vehicles, fifteen Class B giant vehicles, eight Class G vehicles, and nine Class M dwarf vehicles. CARRIE: What conclusion do you derive […]