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Below are links to a few of my articles in pdf and html format, on subjects ranging from the drought in the southwest to a profile of a physicist who believes time does not exist.  Waves of Destruction, one of my older stories, saved some lives in Sri Lanka when a tsunami hit the island in 2004.

Requiem For A RiverOnEarth, Spring 2008

If An Electron Can Be in Two Places At Once, Why Can't You?   Discover, June 2005
(This article won the 2007 American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award)

Quantum Schmantum  Discover, September 2001

Blueprint for Disaster?   OnEarth, Summer 2005

Einstein's Grand Quest For A Unified Theory
  Discover, September 2004

A Thirsty Nation  On Earth, Fall 2004

Warped Passages: The Secret Universe 
The New York Times, October 23, 2005

Nailing Down Gravity  Discover, October 2003

Does the Universe Exist If We're Not Looking?
Discover, June 2002

From Here to Eternity  Discover, December, 2000

Rebuilding the Genius Machines  Popular Science, May 2002

Waves of Destruction
  Discover, May 1994