How have I missed this for so long?
Emily Lakdawalla is the science and technology coordinator for the Planetary Society, and is a pretty good writer. She has a blog, where she writes about things, well, planetary. She’s currently blogging about the Division of Planetary Science meeting in Cambridge, England, and reporting on all sorts of fascinating results. Titan, Mars, asteroids, Saturn’s moons, Pluto… scientists are studying cool stuff. Check it out.
If you went to BadAstronomy.com and found yourself here, never fear: the BA Blog has moved to its new home at Discover Blogs. The original BA site (with the Moon Hoax debunking and all that) is still online, too.
Phil Plait, the creator of Bad Astronomy, is an astronomer, lecturer, and author. After ten years working on Hubble Space Telescope and six more working on astronomy education, he struck out on his own as a writer. He has written two books, dozens of magazine articles, and 12 bazillion blog articles. He is a skeptic, and fights misuses of science as well as praising the wonder of real science.
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September 9th, 2005 at 9:00 am
Thanks! It’s now a favorite.
September 9th, 2005 at 12:23 pm
Ok, it’s not scientific perhaps, but she’s cute too. Smart and hot
Very interesting blog too.
September 9th, 2005 at 1:24 pm
Wow, yeah. I agree. Very cute.
I’ve always wanted to date an astronomer…
September 9th, 2005 at 11:50 pm
I discovered her blog during the Deep Impact mission and kept insisting in that thread on the BABB that everyone read her blog, because she was there at JPL typing fast and furiously, and she just had so much information. She explained a lot more of what was going on than we were getting on the NASA feed, and it made it interesting to know what was happening behind the scenes, people’s comments, etc. She appears to have good connections, and is an excellent writer; on that evening her blog was very readable and she was updating her entries in rapid fire succession.
Sometime after that I emailed her to commend her excellent reporting and she replied with a note of thanks. I love it when people reply, so that just added to my positive impression of her. She seems very personable, as well. I’m not a male, so I’ll leave the “she’s cute, too” part out, but hey, maybe she’s single and waiting for that stellar guy to appear…
September 10th, 2005 at 4:55 am
I’ve been following her blog in the last two months, it’s a must in my bloglines list.
September 10th, 2005 at 11:02 am
Ah, Melusine, I must have missed that! Oh well. And for the record, I think she’s married.
September 11th, 2005 at 4:38 am
Unfortunately, they don’t have a live bookmark RSS feed, but the old style manual one you have to add-in yourself. Otherwise superb and to be added to my Blogroll.
I should add that Stuart has been live weblogging from DPS2005 as well, with some nice posts on Mars, Saturn, Titanand so on.
September 11th, 2005 at 6:27 am
I started following her blog for the Cosmos solar sail mission.. she rocks !