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The Experience of Reading Moi...

2012-01-27T11:57:00.000-05:00

Well, I suppose it could be worse...

The Tree Nobody Wanted

2011-12-20T11:23:00.001-05:00

Boston author Tom McCann's Christmas story, The Tree Nobody Wanted, is available in hardcover and now as an eBook. It's a poignant (but non-schmaltzy) tale, great for kids and for their parents.

If you'd like to sample it first, his new, engaging blog, Real People, is featuring it now.

Stem Cells...

2011-11-25T18:39:00.002-05:00

My post today on Wesley Smith's rant at the Weekly Standard.

Christoph Clavius

2011-11-02T12:46:00.000-04:00

At Forbes, I pick up on Tony Christie's Ode to Clavius.

Fond memories of high school?

2011-08-19T09:17:00.000-04:00

We shot this on a nice Nikon Super8mm film camera during the 1979/1980 (senior) school year. Remastered with Final Cut Pro and music from GarageBand.

Adam (Eve, not so much) and the Vatican

2011-08-17T22:17:00.000-04:00

My two posts on genomics and the challenges to traditional theology, here and here.

The Science of Tequila

2011-07-22T16:00:00.000-04:00

And yes, there is some. At Forbes, the results of painstaking research (and a little imbibing...).

From the Archives of Louvain

2011-07-13T13:57:00.000-04:00

Some new findings in the Lemaître/Hubble debate. At my Forbes blog.

In Boston for the 4th?

2011-07-01T12:01:00.000-04:00

If you're coming to the Hub this summer, here's a nice all-in-one guide for you to bookmark on your iPhone or other portable life support system. Pay special attention to the restaurants.

My Kind of Commercial!

2011-06-30T15:05:00.001-04:00

What It's All About

2011-06-16T10:49:00.000-04:00

Bill Vallicella is one of my favorite philosophers. He manages so often to say better what we often think we know, but just as often cannot articulate so well.

This post today made me think of an old friend from school. An atheist, but never satisfied with it; always searching for something more meaningful than just the Pale Blue Dot. I like to think she'd appreciate this.

Astronomers Behaving Badly

2011-06-15T15:13:00.001-04:00

In my 2005 biography of Georges Lemaître, I argued that Hubble's Law should have been called Lemaître's Law, as he derived the linear velocity-distance relation between galaxies two years before Hubble did. (That bastard.)

Turns out, there was more going on behind the scenes at the time than people realized.

Christopher Lee Does Heavy Metal

2011-05-27T12:19:00.000-04:00

Here's the last segment of my video interview with Sir Christopher Lee, in which he discusses his Heavy Metal album, Charlemagne: By the Sword and the Cross. Enjoy!

Expanding Horizons for Arabic Children

2011-05-20T12:06:00.000-04:00

It's been a while since I posted at Huffington. Here is my latest, on the great program started by Jordanian molecular biologist Rana Dajani, whom I met on my last trip to Cambridge.

Galileo's Conversion

2011-05-18T13:20:00.000-04:00

I discuss a fascinating new paper by Owen Gingerich and Albert van Helden at Forbes.

Sir Christopher Lee on Acting

2011-05-12T11:53:00.000-04:00

The next installment from my interview with Christopher Lee is up at Forbes. He has a great private collection of photos from all periods of his career, and I was able to work a few into this segment. Up next, we'll be discussing his adventures in the Heavy Metal world.

Sir Christopher Lee

2011-04-28T16:55:00.000-04:00

Over at my Forbes blog, the first of a series of videos from an interview I did with Sir Christopher Lee when I was in the UK earlier this month.

The Price is Right

2011-04-27T14:39:00.001-04:00

Taking my cue from Gary Ponzo, I'm selling the Kindle version of my first novel, Doctor Janeway's Plague, for ninety-nine cents at Amazon. It's now in trade paperback, audio and eBook formats. (Now all I have to do is sell the movie rights.)

When the Cure Doesn't Arrive in Time

2011-04-21T10:36:00.002-04:00

A short tribute to my late father-in-law.

An Archeology of St. Patrick

2011-03-17T09:58:00.000-04:00

At my Forbes blog. Sláinte!

My First Novel Now on Kindle (iPad, iPhone, Android, Blackberry)

2011-03-16T12:46:00.000-04:00

The Kindle version of my novel Doctor Janeway's Plague, is now live at Amazon. (It's a cross between C.S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength...and Resident Evil.) I'm pricing it low ($1.50) to attract more readers.

I've been reading about more and more new writers (and some established ones) taking this route as frustration with the current publishing model mounts, especially among mid-list writers.

iPhone Microscope

2011-03-11T16:04:00.000-05:00

I definitely have to try this at home.

Did Apple Save B&N?

2011-02-02T12:40:00.000-05:00

The Author's Guild thinks so.

There's Nuance...and nuance.

2011-02-02T11:59:00.002-05:00

On the continuing databasization of health care, and why it's a good thing.

Moving...Over

2011-01-27T14:18:00.000-05:00

Since my Forbes blog Progressive Download is taking up more of my time, among other writing assignments, and my posting here has been much less frequent, any interested readers should add the rss feed from Progressive Download for more regular items. While it's more geared to science/tech, I hope to work in other book and media-related posts as well.

I'm not planning on shutting this one down, by any means, but posts will definitely be less frequent....