NASA's Ask an Astrophysicist
While at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, I participated in the Ask an Astronomer program, in which we answer astronomy and astrophysics questions submitted online from people all over the world. Many of the questions I received were related to black holes and cosmology (dark matter, dark energy, the fate of the universe, etc). The best questions usually came from kids, often submitted by parents who didn't know the answer. Even in the age of google, it's often more enlightening to get an explanation from an actual person, at least until the robots take over...
Public talks
Astronomy On Tap
Have you ever thought, "This talk is great, but it'd be better with beer"? Of course, astronomers often have that thought during bad talks, but it turns out to be especially true when the speaker has had one or two. Astro on Tap is a public lecture series held in various cities across the US (typically where there are concentrations of professional astronomers), and in the summer of 2016 I was privileged to give a talk during one of the Washington, DC events. It was called Hitchhiking the X-ray Sky: What X-ray Light Reveals About Black Holes, the Universe, and Everything. I had a good time with it.
Other Public Talks
I've given a number of public talks over the years, with hopefully more come. I'll add past and future descriptions/slides here, eventually.
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