Integrated Science at Home

This past year has been busy -- but the result has been TWO new books with tons of amazing science and other geeky projects for kids and...

GeekMom , the blog I helped found and co-edit, has moved to Wired.com, where things are hopping! I've been so busy that science bloggi...

The crescent of Venus, refracted by Earth's atmosphere. Image: Kathy Ceceri My post on GeekMom today includes a photo of a crescen...

Where have we been? Still watching The Joy of Science , and still working on the Robotics book and various accessories, such as a Teaching...

It was another sunny, warm day today, so I took the telescope outside to look for sunspots again. This time, I used photo paper to try to ...

Last year we tried and failed to use our Galileoscope to see sunspots. There were two problems: there were no sunspots to see that day, ...

We've been watching the Discovery Channel series How the Universe Works . While a bit light on content and a tad repetitious, it also ...