Month: December 2019
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In awe of the size of this black hole. Absolute unit.
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] How Big (or Small) Can a Black Hole Get? For Curiosity: The biggest astronomy story of 2019 arguably was the first-ever image of a black hole, captured by a…
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If the world stopped turning
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] What If Earth Stopped Turning? For Curiosity: Earth is spinning on its axis, completing one rotation every 23 hours, 56 minutes, and 4.1 seconds. That spin brings us day…
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The science connecting extreme weather to climate change
The linked article is for SIAM News, the magazine for members of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). The audience for this magazine, in other words, is professional mathematicians and related researchers working in a wide variety of fields. While this article contains (just a few simple) equations, I wrote it to be…