Brother Guy's Schedule for Boskone 52

The Cutting Edge

Friday 14:00 - 14:50, Harbor II (Westin)

Panelists discuss scientific and engineering developments that are new or emerging, and then venture into the realm of those that may be just a short step from development. What ideas are within our reach that recently seemed like pure science fiction? And ( Read more... )

I started out life as a journailst, so I have some sympathy for them. Doing really good journalism is very, very difficult. That is why it is so rare.

But between the Sagan medal, and the new book coming out, and some newsworthy science that I presented last month, I have been getting a spate of requests for interviews. Some have been great, ( Read more... )

The book is officially released today: Would You Baptize an Extraterrestrial?

As I mentioned on Twitter, it's easy to get a signed copy. First, go to your local bookstore and buy a copy. In fact, buy two, in case of accidents. If they don't have it in stock, you can make it worth their while to special order it by ordering 20 or so. Once you have ( Read more... )

I have a book coming out Real Soon Now, and a co-author attached to that book who up to now has lived a peaceful life of relative anonymnity. But he's starting to get the kinds of weird emails that I have been living with for a while now. Seeing that, has made me reflect on the rules of thumb I have invented for myself over the years ( Read more... )

I arrived in Tucson on August 20, nearly a month ago, and hit the ground running. Since then I have gotten a crash course on my new duties and then taken over as the President of the Vatican Observatory Foundation (I'll let you keep your first million, but I am after your second million ( Read more... )

So, last month I got a wonderful letter offering me a special membership for a fabulous conference that the organizers would love to have me attend, apparently because I am so special and fabulous and wonderful, myself. The second paragraph shows just how much they value my unique background: "In recognition of your current work and the significant ( Read more... )

Today I am in London, tomorrow the Lake District. I'll be hiking about there, in the rain no doubt, for a week; then it's on to North Yorkshire and Ampleforth, where I'll be visiting friends and with luck visiting Durham as well ( Read more... )

While waiting for my Skype session to Detcon I to start, I figured I would post this:

The Fermi Paradox in Light of the Kepler Mission

Thursday 19:00 - 20:00, Capital Suite 15 (ExCeL)

The Kepler Mission has been hugely successful in searching for exoplanets. It's results have been used as the basis of claims that Earthlike planets lie in the ( Read more... )

In particular, the Carl Sagan Medal from the American Astronomical Society, Division for Planetary Sciences.

The citation can be found here...

They get the name of one of my books wrong, it is Turn LEFT at Orion, but then you shouldn't believe half of the nice things they say about me, either...

I am embarrassed to admit how pleased I am!

... look to be intense but fun ( Read more... )