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All hats, all the time
You all remember the band Frog Hat? As you may have guessed from the lack of posts, I’ve been very busy writing over the last few weeks. Suffice to say there will be several big articles showing up...
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Farewell to Richmond
I moved to Virginia five years ago on relatively short notice and under less-than-ideal circumstances. The college in Tennessee where I had been teaching was in financial difficulties, so to...
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Helloooo (what city is this again?) Cleveland!
There is no such thing as The Matthew Francis Show, except in the imagination of Morgan Jackson, who created this image. However, I have never looked more like Isaac Asimov. [Credit: Morgan Jackson ]As...
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Invasion of the GeekGirlCon
Next month, I’ll be joining a diverse group of scientists, teachers, and other outreach specialists in Seattle for GeekGirlCon! We’re the DIY Science Zone, bringing hands-on science activities for all...
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Listen to me on the BBC
Artist’s impression of the Mars Orbiter Mission (nicknamed Mangalyaan), India’s first probe to Mars. [Credit: Nesnad]I’ll be on the BBC World Service program Newsday tonight (September 23) at 11:30 US...
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What would you like to learn in 2015?
As I’ve mentioned on several occasions, I’m director of CosmoAcademy: the branch of the CosmoQuest public outreach/citizen science organization that runs online classes. We’ve had a good year, offering...
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Why I missed my five-year anniversary
My writing style, summarized. September 2015 marked my fifth year of blogging, which is funny to think about now. Despite my start as a blogger (like many professional science writers in this era), I...
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Spend your winter on Mars and the outer Solar System!
Pluto, the most famous Kuiper belt object, and the topic of one of our new CosmoAcademy classes. [Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI]I’m pleased to announce the first CosmoAcademy classes for 2017! CosmoAcademy...
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2017: onward and upward
Portrait of a science writer in their natural element. Since the summer of 2011, I have been earning part or all of my income from writing alone. 2016 was a complicated year, to put it mildly. On the...
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I’m publishing a book, and you can help it happen!
Preliminary cover design for “Who Owns an Asteroid?”, a comics collection by Maki Naro and me. For a few years now, I’ve been collaborating with artist extraordinaire Maki Naro on nonfiction science...
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