FAVORITE QUOTES:
"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend.
Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
- Groucho
"Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is
excellent."
- Chairman Mao Tse Tung
"We are all lying in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the
stars."
- Oscar Wilde
My CV (PDF format)
SCIENCE EDUCATION ,
including my 2002 book on
Peer
Instruction For Astronomy (a teacher's guide for introductory
undergraduate astronomy). See some popular science articles too.
The Chandra X-ray Observatory
where I work in the Director's Office.
HOBBIES especially playing
bass with
The Wicked
Pickers . Before that,
J.P. Tropicale with Cornell Coley, before that,
the Little Big Band
Feed the Meter .
The is from
Hubble, showing
a distant cluster of (mostly red) galaxies acting as a gravitational
lens, producing the optical illusion of 4 (blue) images of the same
background quasar.
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