Category: Metablog
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[Extremely Boyz II Men Voice] The End of the Blog
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Blogging? What’s that? The new hotness is newsletters. Which is to say, I’m shuttering the Bowler Hat Science blog, where I post links to new articles I’ve written. The number of readers of this blog has never been high, and when I took a poll a while back, a fair number of my social media…
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Welcome to the new Bowler Hat Science blog!
For 2015, I’m reviving the Bowler Hat Science blog as a way to catalog all the writing I do for other websites, to make it easier to locate. You can subscribe to updates or just visit frequently. The posts will be very simple — just the headline, place where the piece was published, and a…
Matthew R. Francis
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The week in review (August 18-24)
I’ve been remiss in blogging at Bowler Hat Science, largely because…well, I’ve been writing too much elsewhere. So, I’m going to try something different: instead of blogging each new article I write in a separate entry, I’ll write a single post summarizing everything in one go. How I learned to stop worrying and love tolerate…
Matthew R. Francis
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Frequently asked questions about my book-in-progress
Writing a book is one of those brain-consuming things. I swear I mention it to everyone (“Could I get a medium dark roast, please, and did I tell you I’m writing a book?”), but of course nobody could be as obsessed with my book as much as I am, so it’s not always obvious if…
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I am a RealScientist!
OK, it’s not quite like Pinocchio‘s “I’m a real boy” transformation, but I will be handling the RealScientists Twitter feed this week, talking about what I do as a professional science writer and (of course) physics, astronomy, cosmology, music, comics, or whatever I usually talk about. If you’re on Twitter, follow along, and make sure…
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The Bowler Hat is on the move
For the next two weeks, I am on the move, traveling to various observatories in the American south and southwest, as part of the research for my book-in-progress Back Roads, Dark Skies: A Cosmological Journey. This morning, I will be visiting the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) near Livingston, Louisiana, before heading west to other…
Matthew R. Francis
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