Welcome

Purpose

This personal website is a central repository for my written work. It includes original work and work done for other websites. Unless an agreement with another site prevents it, any articles I write will eventually appear here.

Content

Content is organized into several broad categories:

• newsletter

  Newsletters are sent to the email list about once a month. If you would like to receive the newsletter, simply enter your email in the form at the bottom of the page.

• blog

  Popular science articles focused mostly on physics and astronomy. Many were first published in places such as Forbes, Scientific American, and Universe Today.

• fiction

  Any similarity to people living or dead is purely coincidental. Most of the fiction presented here is either flash fiction or excerpts from larger projects. They should be considered works in progress.

• journal

  The Journal is focused on more personal topics, experiences and general thoughts. These are not scientific writings, so they aren't included on the blog.

• tech

  A series of articles focused on cybersecurity and cyberprivacy. They detail the search for a balance between privacy and connectivity.

• books

  A list of published books I've written and where you can find them. Currently there is only one, but other books are in progress.

• posts

  Originally written for Google+, these were transferred to the website as Google’s social network experiment lurched toward its inevitable demise. Some are a bit rough around the edges, but they mark the beginning of the current blog.

• podcast

  Running from March through November of 2015, the One Universe at a Time podcast featured scientists and their research. The topics are wide ranging and aimed at the general public. The podcast is currently on hiatus.

• videos

  These videos were created as part of the Universe Unleashed series on YouTube. It was mostly an experiment, and only a few were made.

• archive

  A list of every article I've ever written.

About Me

I was raised on a small midwest farm with my parents and a Northwoods cabin with my grandmother. Over the years I’ve been a farmhand, father, programmer, husband, writer, and professor. I’m a first-generation college student with a Ph.D. in Physics and have published research in physics, astrophysics, and computational astrophysics.

Copyright

Images on the site are owned by their attributed authors. The text on this site presented under a CC BY-NC license. You are free to reproduce and adapt it for non-commercial purposes. I don’t provide social media quick links on the site, since they track users, but you are free to link articles and share them.

Some academic institutions require specific consent from authors to use their material in the classroom. Let this serve as notice that educators are free to use material from this site for their classes so long as attribution is given.

Privacy

You shouldn’t have to surrender your privacy to use a website, nor should you be bombarded by ads just to read a bit of content. This site doesn’t use cookies or scripts to track your activity. There are no ads or sponsored content. All content on the site is freely available without a paywall.

If you subscribe to the newsletter, I will never share your contact information with others, and will only use your email to send you newsletters regarding this website.

Supporting the Site

If you would like to financially contribute to the site, you can currently support it on Patreon.

Feedback

If you have feedback or questions regarding the site I’d love to hear from you. You can reach me via contact@briankoberlein.com.