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Norman Sperling
2625 Alcatraz Avenue #235
Berkeley, CA 94705-2702

cellphone 650 - 200 - 9211
eMail normsperling [at] gmail.com

Norm Sperling’s Great Science Trek: 2013

FEBRUARY and MARCH 2013:
Settling into trailer life, keeping warm

San Luis Obispo
Santa Barbara
Mojave Desert
Cactus League Spring Training
Yuma
Tucson
El Paso
Brownsville
~ March 22: San Antonio
March 23-25: offline
~ March 26: Houston

APRIL 2013:
Gulf Coast
up the Eastern seaboard

MAY 2013:
near I-40 westbound
near US-101 northbound
May 17: TriValley Stargazers, Livermore
May 18-19: Maker Faire, San Mateo
May 24-27: BayCon, Santa Clara

JUNE 2013:
June 1: NCHALADA near San Francisco
near I-70 eastbound
Denver
~June 14: St. Louis
June 15-22: offline
~June 23: Minneapolis
June 28-30: RASC Thunder Bay

JULY 2013:
Great Lakes region
Upper Peninsula
July 27-28: Maker Faire, Detroit

AUGUST 2013:
August 6-9: Nebraska Star Party
~ August 13: Glacier
August 14-17: offline
August 22-on: UC Berkeley

Speaking engagements welcome!
2014 and 2015 itineraries will probably cross several times.

What Your Astronomy Textbook Won’t Tell You

What Your Astronomy Textbook Won't Tell You

by Norman Spering

Textbooks don’t tell all they should, and sometimes inhibit learning.
Norm Sperling teaches what textbooks won’t tell:
- Too sure of things? Learn which Unknowns still stump us.
- Outdated viewpoints? Reset your mindset.
- Need to weed out bunk? Bigtime debunking explains why science can tell how nature works.
- Overly serious? Chuckle at bloopers.
- Fresh, intriguing ideas and viewpoints, many of which apply to other sciences as well.

From the review in JRASC: "a rollicking read. It is fun! The language is down-to-earth and jargon-free. The writing style is straightforward and friendly. The book does not take itself too seriously. You will find it hard to put down because it just keeps going, like the Energizer bunny, with interesting topic after interesting topic."

183 pages, paperback, 2002. Add $2.00 for Custom-inscribed by the author any way the customer wants.

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