NEW SCIENCE SERIES: Our origin in the stars with Jacob Berkowitz

St. Laurent Academy's Michael Leveille

In Person Big Ideas Science History
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Sunday
Oct , 2012
28
2:00pm
Eastern
Knox Presbyterian Church
120 Lisgar st. (at Elgin) • Ottawa
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NEW SCIENCE SERIES: Our origin in the stars with Jacob Berkowitz

Well-written scientific detective story explains our deep relationship to materials from space.

Tom Spears in the Ottawa Citizen

How am I connected to the cosmos? Are we alone in the universe? In The Stardust Revolution, Jacob Berkowitz tells the story of how astrobiologists are literally tracing the natural history of the cosmos from the Big Bang to our bodies, making the evolutionary links from atoms formed by stars, to the molecules of interstellar space, the emergence of living planets, and us. 

 

The Authors

Jacob Berkowitz

Jacob Berkowitz

For the past two decades, Jacob Berkowitz has told the story of science at its frontier. He’s taught high-school biology to fundamentalist Christian students, been the press officer for the Canadian Museum of Nature, and a science writer and journalist readers know for topics from donut invention to Canadians’ propensity for vasectomies. Berkowitz is the best-selling author of Jurassic Poop: What Dinosaurs (and Others) Left Behind, winner of the 2007 American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award. His book Out of This World: The Amazing Search for an Alien Earth was selected as a SkyNews best astronomy book for 2009. Berkowitz lives in Almonte, ON, with his wife, the painter Rosemary Leach, and their two children. www.jacobberkowitz.com  

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