I'm a science writer and editor. I work with clients in the observatory and planetarium community, as well as my own book, web, planetarium, and other projects.
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Happy Day after Solstice! I missed posting yesterday because I was out reveling in the glow of the shortest day/longest night of the year. It's now officially winter in the northern hemisphere, although it hardly looks wintry here in New England. If you're in Colorado or any of the other states hit by the big blizzard, you have my condolences about the hardships and my envy that at least you have snow.
Last week I introduced you to a few of my blogrollees. These are folks whose blogs and sites I've read and enjoyed, and figured you would, too. Obviously my link to Loch Ness Productions takes you to the place where my husband and I do our main business.
We started out years ago just selling his space music (which he produces under the stage name GEODESIUM). Then we branched out into planetarium show productions, and we've been involved in some 40-odd productions over the years. Now we're branching out again into other productions, such as soundtracks for short astronomy animations and, in a project starting in 2007, we'll be producing astronomy vodcasts for an observatory.
In addition to that work, I also work out my writing jones by doing writing and editing for a variety of places under my own company (which you can read more about here.) Under those auspices I worked on the Griffith Observatory exhibits as the main writer (see samples at my online Griffith Tour).
I also serve Gemini Observatory and Subaru Telescope as writer and editor. If you're a regular reader of their web pages, or GeminiFocus, you're seeing some of my work.
Okay, enough about me. Let's get to some other blogrollees listed on the left. During the recent Weblog Awards competition, I made a note of Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy Blog and asked you to vote for him. The main contender—and eventual winner was Pharyngula. This is a cool blog for those of you who palpitate over cephalopods. Even if you don't, you should go check this page out. It's witty, interesting, often very sharp, and written by PZ Myers, a biologist and associate professor at University of Minnesota, Morris.
A pic from PZ's site of one of the window displays at Macy's this year.
Next, give a look to our friends over at Hubble Space Telescope. All the cosmos is laid out there for you to inspect, and they've got image libraries, games for the kids (in all of us), and much more.
A star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, as seen by HST.
Finally, there's Adot's NotBlog, a commentary site written by Asa Dotzler. His views on life, the universe, and everything are all over the map!
As you can see, science—and writing about it—can be a lot of fun. Thought-provoking, even. I'll be adding some more pages to the blogroll over the next few weeks, so keep your eye on the left column during your visits here.
The sites below belong to space and astronomy enthusiasts. I make every effort to check them and make sure they are still appropriate. However, I am not responsible for their content, nor do I endorse any of it by simply linking to them. As with all Web surfing, please exercise caution.
Adot's Notblog A fellow traveler blogger and astronomy enthusiast!
Astronomy Blog An astronomy blog pondering the big questions
