Chapters
Gravity in Reverse
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In The Best American Science Writing 2004, pp. 53-60
Edited by Dava Sobel. Ecco/HarperCollins (New York), 2004.
Adapted from Natural History Magazine article.
Holy Wars: An Astrophysicist Ponders the God Question
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In Science and Religion: Are They Compatible, pp. 73-79.
Edited by Paul Kurtz and Barry Karr. Prometheus Books (Amherst, NY), 2003.
Adapted from Natural History Magazine article.
Powers of Ten
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In Power, the book compendium of the 2002 Darwin Lecture Series of the same name.
Darwin College, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Press (Cambridge), 2003
Space Travel Troubles
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In Looking Backward, Looking Forward: Forty Years of U.S. Human Space Flight, p. 127.
Edited by Steve J. Garber, NASA (Washington D.C.), 2002.
Adapted from televised May 8, 2001 presentation in a George Washington University NASA symposium.
Space, You Can't Get There from Here
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In Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Science, Technology, and Society
Edited by Thomas A. Easton, McGraw-Hill/Dushkin (Guilford, CT), 2002.
Adapted from Space Travel Troubles in Natural History magazine.
Space, You Can't Get There from Here
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In The Well-Crafted Argument, p. 427.
Edited by Fred E. White & Simone J. Billings, Houghton Mifflin Co. (Boston), 2001.
Adapted from Space Travel Troubles in Natural History magazine.
Science's Endless Golden Age
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In The Invisible Future: The Seamless Integration of Technology with Everyday Life, p. 1.
Edited by Peter J. Denning, McGraw Hill (New York), 2001
Certain Uncertainties
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In Skeptical Odysseys, p. 176.
Edited by Paul Kurtz, Prometheus Books (Amherst, NY), 2001.
What are the Grand Questions of Science
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In Closer to Truth: Challenging Current Belief, p. 311.
Edited by Robert Lawrence Kuhn, McGraw Hill (New York), 2000.
From a PBS televised panel.
What are the next breakthroughs in science
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In Closer to Truth: Challenging Current Belief, p. 325.
Edited by Robert Lawrence Kuhn, McGraw Hill (New York), 2000.
From a PBS televised panel.
Paths to Discovery
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In The Columbia History of the 20th Century, p. 461.
Edited by Richard Buillet, Columbia Press (New York), 1998.
