Jim McMurtray has been a science teacher, a planetarium director, a NASA lecturer and Executive Director of a science and mathematics non-profit in Washington DC . He has retired from all that and now spends his time playing with grandchildren, building boats (some you can sit in and some that sit in bottles), *making unusual things out of paper (Examples) and writing novels. He has seen a lot of amazing things and actually remembers some of them. He is considered by some to be old and wise, but only one of these claims is verifiable. He does not always follow his own advice, but he has enormous respect for it.
McMurtray has written six novels, Kicked (2018), Instrument (2016), Pathogen (2015), A Strange Detached Fragm
ent (2015), Accountable (2014 and The Ice and the Stars (2009). He is the author of Barbarian Science, a humorous book on science literacy in America, (1999), and Starlight, a nationally distributed planetarium show on the physics of stars (1981). He founded AltAzimuth Media in 2013 to promote his work and other creative projects. He still writes and speaks on systems thinking and structural reform in science, technology, and mathematics education. His eyebrows are natural and have never been trimmed.
