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Writing

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Articles

The Fishadelphia Story  (what to do with a PhD in ecology when what you want to do is help people in the Philly neighborhoods who need fresh fish in their lives)

Women Are Creating a New Culture for Astronomy   (compared to the previous generations of women astronomers, this latest one is pretty feisty, like, don’t mess with them or with their friends either)

Orbital Aggression   (satellites are hard to defend and easy to shoot down, so maybe we should work harder on treaties)

 The Life and Breath of Galaxies (galaxies get the glory but they’d be zip without gas)

Unwelcome Advice?  (update on the Jason advisory group)

The Astronomer Who’d Rather Build Space Cameras (profile of Jim Gunn)

The Scientist Who Reads Lost History in the Mud (profile of paleoecologist Grace Brush)

Messengers from the Sky (multi-messenger astronomy)

Inside the Breakthrough Starshot Mission to Alpha Centauri

The Great Quake and the Great Drowning (historic Pacific Northwest earthquakes)

The Mystery of the Dead Galaxies

Laser Focus (profile of astronomer Claire Max)

Planets in Chaos

Indispensible Outsider (profile of physicist Richard Garwin)

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Posts

Higgs and the Certainty of Physicists

Beth Willman Really Does Have a Galaxy

The Story of Hanny, So Far >  A Terrifying Incident in Space!

What’s the Matter with Gravity?

The Great Baltimore Earthquake of July 16, 2010

Why I Like Science

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The Last Word on Nothing

Anti-Copernican Shock

Johnny & Oppy

Farm Hall: The Fall into Failure

What I’m Not Going to Do  > The Finkbeiner Test >  Questions about the FT > Further Thoughts on FT > CJR on FT > Nearly Final Thoughts on FT

Science Plus/Versus Religion

The Theorist, the Tundra, and the Forbidden Crystal

Uncle Bundy and the Ball Bearing

The Springtime of Robins

Closed System Sibling Knowledge

The Poet Bernoulli

Diagnosing Grief

An Argument about Crows

Outright Gifts

Pulling the Primary

A Continuing Series:  Science Metaphors for Life 

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