Note added Thursday, May 12:
Oops! I forgot to mention, the Eighth Skeptics Circle of blogs has been posted at Pharyngula's place. And in keeping with my own blog entry below-- nyah nyah, mine's mentioned first!
This has been quite a week for me. Bear with me; I have a point to make, though not a terribly serious one. First, I did a series of on-camera interviews for a telecourse I am helping edit. Basically, it's like a TV series to accompany a well-known astronomy textbook; students watch the show to supplement the material in the book. I was hired to help edit the scripts-- fact-check, add color commentary, that sort of thing. There are many famous astronomers interviewed for the program, but sometimes we find later that there are some holes, some topics that we missed, and we need another on-camera talking head to verbiate and plug those gaps. ...
