The Ted Scripps Fellowship continues to keep me busy and happy. Through Charles Wilkinson’s environmental law class, I’ve become acquainted with Wallace Stegner and his book about John Wesley Powell. Too bad the class discussion won’t likely focus on Powell’s brave first run of the Colorado River; the descriptions triggered big homesickness for canyon country [...]
I couldn’t have known how weird it would be to return to the classroom. It’s only been about nine years, after all, since I left it. It hit me when I was standing in the school supplies aisle at the supermarket yesterday, because I realized I should have a notebook, one with multiple sections for [...]
When the researcher sent the link to thise image for a Universe Today post, my jaw dropped. Absolutely incredible view of a sunspot, by researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), in my new town of Boulder. You can read more about it in the UT story, or get the full scoop at the [...]
I was the only journalist who attended a press conference in person today at the American Astronomical Society’s Solar Physics Division meeting in Boulder (several others participated by phone). I’m attending just because I happen to live here, as of two weeks ago. What a rare treat! The meeting is a hotbed of brand new [...]
Wow, the intervals between posts seem to be getting longer. This time, the lag is at least partly owing to my outdated view of myself as a whippersnapper who can load up a rental truck, drive across the country (camping out along the way with a cat and dog), unload said truck in a strange [...]
