ARTICLES Home. Books. Articles. Teaching. About Me. Since 2020, as Wired Magazine’s “senior senior” correspondent: Some other stuff:
Keeping Up With the Coronas    July 7, 2020
Those Damn Denominators    April, 23 2020
My Problem With Pronouns    June 18, 2022
I Don’t Understand Anything Anymore     April 20, 2022
The Mathematics of Cancel Culture    October 25, 2021
The Shaky Ground Truths of Wikipedia    March 9, 2021
The Unnatural Future of Physics    October 18, 2022
The Simple Idea Behind Einstein’s Greatest Discoveries - Quanta - June 26, 2019
Quantum Mechanics: Two Contradictory Things Can Still be True - Los Angeles Times - Oct. 21, 2018
The Strange Second Life of String Theory - Quanta - September, 2016
Why You Didn’t See it Coming - Nautilus - October, 2015
Atomic Idea - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - June, 2013

 Persuasion vs. Coercion at the Holiday Table - Slate - December, 2012

 Why Does “CEO” mean “White Male?” - Los Angeles Times - October, 2012

 Ancient Brains, Modern Dilemmas - Los Angeles Times - August, 2012

 Symmetry - Dimensions of Particle Physics - October, 2004

 A New Slice on Physics -  Los Angeles Times  -May 2003

 Fun With Physics - The New Yorker - June, 2003

 The Cosmos Was Alive With the Sound of Matter - Los Angeles Times  - May, 2000

 Scientist’s Timeless Legacy is the Study of Time Itself - Los Angeles Times - June, 2000

 Time, Space Obsolete in New View of Universe - Los Angeles Times - November, 1999

 A Zigzag Route to the Truth - Los Angeles Times  - August 1997
The Future of  Reality is Multiple Choice     December 22, 2021
Worm Holes Untangle a Black Hole Paradox - Quanta  - April, 2015
The End of Grading     February 9, 2023