I've been volunteering at the Madison Science Museum, and we have a new exhibit opening next week.  Here's a little bit about it. Stop by and see it if you're in the area!

Laser Exhibit

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For my article in Wisconsin People and Ideas on the human microbiome (adapted from an article I wrote for FASEB's Breakthroughs in Bioscience series), I was asked to write a sidebar about my process.

Here it is.


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In recognition of Black History Month,
I'm giving away a copy of
Bayard Rustin: The Invisible Activist
on Goodreads.

Goodreads Book Giveaway


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Here's a great post by Gene Luen Yang about science in comics.

Peek:  ". . . our society puts up a wall between activities it deems “left brain” and those it deems “right brain.” Math and science inhabit one world, art and story (and comics) another. But this division is artificial."

The list:

Primates by Jim Ottaviani and Maris Wicks

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Goodreads Book Giveaway


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Bayard Rustin: The Invisible Activist will be released this fall from Quaker Press. It was co-written by Michael G. Long (an academic who edited a book of Bayard's letters), Walter Naegle (Bayard's partner for the last ten years of his life and the archivist of the estate) and me. Here's the cover:


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Over at From the Mixed-Up Files of Middle-Grade Authors, I wrote a post about the true meaning of Labor Day. Books about the labor movement and the people who worked hard to give us weekends and safer workplaces. Books about the children (like my grandmother) who worked hard in mills and mines before we had laws about child labor. 

On May 8, I'll be participating on a panel about writing for children about real people. Join Ann Bausum, Don Tate, Jan Pinborough and me for what promises to be an interesting evening.


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