I've taken to writing book reviews of recent, astronomically-related books that I've read. In the hopes that others might find these of interest, I present them here.
Captured by Aliens by Joel Achenbach
Are We Alone in the Cosmos? edited by Ben Bova, Byron Preiss, & William R. Alschuler
Rare Earth by Peter D. Ward & Donald Brownlee
Big Ear Two by John Kraus
Bioastronomy 1999 edited by Guillermo A. Lemarchand & Karen J. Meech
Deep Time by Gregory Benford
Bioastronomy 2002: Life Among the Stars
Bioastronomy 2004: Habitable Worlds
Not really book reviews, these are various essays I've written, not all of them on astronomy.
My Deep Time Age Calculator. Think you are old? Think again!
Analysis of a Meteorite by John Alden White, my great-grandfather
How to build a scale model of the solar system;
On the "Missing Day", claimed to be evidence of a story in the Book of Joshua;
Confusingly Eponymous, on being confused with somebody else also named Lazio;
Computers and Programming, including comments on HTML;
Movies we'd all like to see....
Astronomy is an international science. The result is that I have taken a number of interesting trips. I've written down some reflections on some of these trips; though not all are online right now.
China, IAU Colloquium 182, 2000 April
Some Deep Thoughts on life.