First Annual Visible Universe Astronomy Gift Guide

It might be a little presumptuous to publish a First Annual anything in a column that has only been around a year and a half, but volunteer columnists have license to be bold. For your shopping convenience, here are some of the items featured in Friday's column, The First Annual Visible Universe Astronomy Gift Guide:

• Donate online to the Arecibo Observatory


• Buy Bulfinch's Mythology at Amazon or Powell's


• Buy H.A. Rey's The Stars at Amazon


• Buy the SegaToys HomeStar Pure Home Planetarium


• Subscribe to Astronomy or Sky and Telescope magazine

Happy spending!

Playing catch-up

It has been too long! Let me catch you up on the projects I've been working on while I've been neglecting this blog.

Over at the Foundational Questions Institute Web site, I've written four scientists profiles, and have two new articles in the works.

• Through the Looking Glass Marcus Aspelmeyer's experimental tests of entanglement (Currently an FQXi Editor's Choice!)


• It's All Relative Olaf Dreyer's new take on the measurement problem


• Magic Numbers How Ekkehard Peik is testing the constancy of constants


• Talking Heads A mythological sea serpent talks quantum theory with Matthew Leifer

And from the Boulder Daily Camera, where The Visible Universe columns appears every alternate Friday:

• Black holes capture the imagination What is our obsession with black holes?


• Playing fast and loose with time Why get all upset over daylight saving time when time itself is shifting underfoot?


• SETI and the "Geek" "Beauty and the Geek" and other guilty pleasures