Some Recent Media Appearances

Maybe there’s a better way to keep track of these, but in the meantime, here’s some media appearances I’ve done for outreach lately! Guest scientist in CBBC Show “Out-of-this-World” S1E6 (Aliens) – (link only works in the UK, sorry!) Special guest on SETI Institute SETI Live show “Second-Guessing Aliens”  

I’m Starting to Hate Einstein

I’m starting to hate Einstein. Yeah, I said it. Brilliant. Famed. Genius. Hailed. Innovative. Transformed. Singlehandedly. Greatest Physicist. Magnum Opus.  These are the words that the students in my Astronomy Communication class use to talk about Einstein. And they’re not alone, of course! They didn’t pull these ideas out of thin air. Einstein has been […]

Rainbow in the Dark

This post is a layperson’s explanation of my paper Choosing a Maximum Drift Rate in a SETI Search: Astrophysical Considerations. Seem familiar? This particular essay is cross-posted on the Berkeley SETI Research Center blog here.  Let’s do a thought experiment. Imagine you’re out in space with your friend and they shine a green light at […]

AAAS 2019 Pt. 2: How People Learn

Here’s the second part of a multi-part series on the things I learned from the AAAS 2019 conference. For more background on the conference, see the first post in this series. Without further ado, here are some fun facts, resources, themes, solutions, and jargon that I learned at AAAS about… How People Learn From the […]