• The Science Creative Quarterly has just published my piece "How to Think about Eternity," see below.

Public Presentations

• I'm giving a seminar on Reimagining Nature Through Poetry at BU's Alumni College for BU alumni and friends, Friday June 8. See the link for registration.

• In 2010 and 2011, I gave a series of five public presentations on the topic of Cosmic Perspective on Celebrity Cruises on two different cruise ships, the Celebrity Eclipse and the Celebrity Mercury. The individual presentations were: Finding our Place in Space, Finding our Place in Time, Transits and Cosmic Perspective, The Bluffer's Guide to the Cosmos and Biodiversity and You. Fifty to one hundred people attended each and all were well received.

• Contact me if you're interested in hearing more about my presentations about science or writing or both.

Fiction

• Experience a Parisian Rendezvous at Prime Numbers.

• Swink, published a bio-history of Rene Albert, "the world's only surrealist scientist".

• A Borgesian fantasy, "Borges and You", was published in Qwerty in Fall 2009.

• Check out some some microfictions, including "A History of Laughter, A History of Teenagers, and Bedtime at Our House" at Glossolalia.

• Read about "Whale Migration"at Rumble.

• Read the despatch from "The Center of the Galaxy" at The Charles River Journal.

• Read "The Wave: A Review" and "The Last Days of My Youth" at Neon.

• A new story, "A Report on the New String Theory Library," has appeared in an anthology of stories about string theory, Riffing on Strings, published by Scriblerus Press. You can read an excerpt, including my story, at the publisher's website.
  • The anthology received a very favorable review in New Scientist, reprinted in the blog 3 Quarks Daily and also available as a pdf tearsheet.

  • My story is also featured on the New Scientist site.

• Enjoy The Life of Dreams in The Avatar Review.

• Have an espresso at The Four O'Clock Cafe at The Blue Print Review.

• See what the fuss is about at Cezanne's Carrot with The Birth of the Universe

• Check out Neon (UK), Issue 12 for A Short Course on Cloud Physics
  (Alas, you'll have to buy the magazine, but it's a nice little package.)

Travel

• Read my prize-winning essay Vietnam: Calling All Wandering Souls at Tiferet.

• Picture Guatamala in Gulf Stream.

• A travel essay called, "How to Cross the Street in Hanoi," was published in The Nashwaak Review, in 2009.

• A travel essay called, "A Gap in the Indian Afternoon," was published in Tiferet: A Journal of Spiritual Literature in 2009.

• Read Laos: Staring at You in Two Hawks Quarterly.

• Travel to the Bottom of Laos, with photos, at Asian Cha.

• Relive a breakup story from Bangkok (from Eclectica): Another Night in Bangkok

• Go on a wild-goose chase in Bangkok (from Utne): Excuse Me, Sir

• Take a meditation lesson in Bangkok while Traveling, Traveling, Traveling in Buddhist Thailand in The Wanderlust Review.

• Experience some Cuban Episodes from the Journal of the Core Curriculum

• Go to an Indian classical music concert in Delhi (originally published in Grain Magazine and reprinted in the Journal of the Core Curriculum): Delhi Raga

• Travel On the Road to Dharamsala at Pology Magazine.

• A travel essay, "Rajasthan: The Mirages of Life," has appeared in issue 49 of Bayou Magazine.

Miscellaneous Nonfiction

• Experience The Funeral Bell at The Tower Journal.

• Read about the The Meaning of Life at Word Riot.

• Explore "The Geography of Pain" in a personal essay published in the anthology Migraine Expressions.

Science and Science Humor

• Bat around the idea of How to Think about Eternity at The Science Creative Quarterly.

• Investigate Ten Simple Science Experiments to Test the Universality of Poetry at The Quarc Issue.

• Start a big foolish project: Instructions on How to Build a Galaxy at Slow Trains.

• Ponder the Instructions on How to Build a Cloud at Cafe Irreal;

• Learn How to Build a Planet in Twelve Easy Steps at Opium Magazine;

• Learn the Twelve Tips to Avoid Depression While Living at the Space Station at Defenestration Magazine;

• A feature article, "How Johannes Kepler Revolutionized Astronomy," appeared in the January 2009 issue of Astronomy, which is probably on news stands until late in December.

• A short piece, "We are Stardust: Spread the Word," appeared in the August, 2007, issue of Sky and Telescope.

• A review of the book "Quantum Physics: Illusion or Reality," by Alastair Rae, is online from the site of the Canadian Journal of Physics.

• A semi-popular article on the transits of Venus reprinted from the Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada: A (Not So) Brief History of the Transits of Venus.

Poetry

• The Antigonish Review published a poem of mine called The Burgess Shale.

• Clarion, published a poem called "Tracks".

• Two poems from my Magritte project were published in The Meadowland Review.

• Four poems appeared in the summer (volume 5, #2) issue of The Wilderness House Literary Review.

• Several of my poems based on the work of surrealist painter Rene Magritte appeared in the Hiss Quarterly, which went defunct in 2009.

• Another has appeared in Diagram.