When I'm not writing books, I'm usually writing something else...magazine articles, stage plays, radio plays, shopping lists, love/hate letters... Here's a list of some of my notable published and produced works, with links as available.
Magazine Articles
2010
"On a Wing and a...Sail" - American Heritage of Invention & Technology, Spring 2010
"Scopes On a Plane! SOFIA" - Popular Science, March 2010
"Faster, Lighter Space Engines" - Popular Mechanics, March 2010
"A Bomber's First and Last Mission" - Aviation History, March 2010
"The Miracle of Digital Imaging" - American Heritage of Invention & Technology, Winter 2010
2009
"That Airbus Landing on the Hudson: Not so seat-of-the-pants after all" - Broad Street Review (online), December 2009
"William C. Ocker: A Pioneer of Instrument Flight" - The Yellow Sheet, the Magazine of Marine Aviation, Winter 2009/10 (reprint)
"Piercing the Plasma: Ideas to Beat the Communications Blackout of Reentry" - Scientific American, December 2009 "Remembering the Other Explorers" - Sky & Telescope, December 2009
"Smart Bomb Against Cancer" - Popular Mechanics, November 2009"The Instrumental Missionary: William C. Ocker" (reprint) - AirForce, Magazine of the Air Force Association of Canada, Fall 2009
"The Father of Video Games" - American Heritage of Invention & Technology, Fall 2009
"Tiltrotors for the Rest of Us" - Air & Space Smithsonian, September 2009
"Into the Mushroom Cloud" - Air & Space Smithsonian, August 2009
"Starquakes" - Air & Space Smithsonian, August 2009
"From the Mind of R.T. Jones" - American Heritage of Invention & Technology, Summer 2009
"Michael Mann's Public Enemies" - Broad Street Review (online), July 2009
"Something Different: Ambient/Space Music" - Broad Street Review (online), July 2009
"Frost/Nixon on DVD" - Broad Street Review (online), June 2009
"Magnificent Obsession" - ICON Magazine, May 2009
"KEPLER's Eye: Is Earth Unique? A New Spaceship is Seeking Planets Like Ours To FInd Out" - Popular Mechanics, May 2009"Theatrical Readings and Where to Find Them" - Broad Street Review (online), March 2009
"Guitarist John Williams at Perelman Theater" - Broad Street Review (online), March 2009
"Oppenheimer and the 'Guilt-Ridden Scientist' Myth" - Broad Street Review (online), March 2009
"KEPLER Launch Will Help Hubble Continue Golden Age" - Popular Mechanics (online), March 2009
"Fighting on all Fronts: From pharmaceuticals to vaccination strategies, Temple alumni combat disease" - Temple Review, Winter 2009
"War on Ice" - American Heritage of Invention & Technology, Winter 2009
"Big Little Problem: Trying to figure out where each atom belongs in a nanostructure" - Scientific American, January 20092008
"The Quiet Return of Supersonics" - Popular Mechanics, December 2008
"The Hotline" - Geek Monthly, November 2008
"The Father of Blind Flying" - American Heritage of Invention & Technology, Fall 2008
“How Things Work: The Ouija Board” - Air & Space Smithsonian, October/November 2008
2007
2006
2004
"Unfriendly Persuasion" - Air & Space Smithsonian, September 2004
2003
"Spies vs. Breast Cancer" - American Heritage of Invention & Technology, Summer 2003
"Winged Atom" - American History, February 2003
Book Review - "Unlocking the Sky: Glenn Hammond Curtis and the Race to Invent the Airplane" - American History, February 2003
2002
"The Tube is Dead - Long Live the Tube" - American Heritage of Invention & Technology, Fall 2002
"SoloTrek Takes Flight" - Flight Journal, October 2002
"Oppenheimer Under Suspicion" - American History, August 2002
"30...and Counting: Pioneer 10" - StarDate, March/April 2002
2001
2000
Book Review - "Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe" - Skeptical Inquirer, Nov./Dec. 2000
"Pathfinding the Rings" - Quest: History of Spaceflight Quarterly, Spring 2000
Selected Plays and Media Scripts
February 2009 - present - Readings of various works, Bridal Salon Reading Series, Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA
October 2005 – “The Shadow of the Light” and “Story of the Century” – One-act plays, Shubin Theatre, Philadelphia
November 2000 - "Downwind" - Full-length play, Showcase Theatre, Exeter, PA (Nominee, Best Original Production, Northeastern Pennsylvania Theatrical Alliance Awards, 2001)
See some photos from the production.
June 1999 - "Machines in Love" - One-act play, Showcase Theatre, Exeter, PA
1998 - "Story of the Century" - Audio Play, Ziplow Productions, Hilton Head Island, SC
October 1997 - "Downwind," Magnet Theatre Company, Trenton, NJ
1994-2000 - "The Funnt File" Audio/Radio Series - Co-Creator, Chief Writer
Listen to the complete Funnt File series, now available online in mp3 format!
1991-1993 - Various radio scripts for "The Iowa Radio Project," National Public Radio
May 1993 - "Machines in Love," Stage Two Theatre, Waukegan, IL
1986-2000 - Public readings of various works by the Playwrights Workshop of Theater Center Philadelphia and the Brick Playhouse, Philadelphia, PA
April 1990 - "An Evening With Tony Bennett" - One-act play, First Stage, Los Angeles, CA
March 1990 - "Sheltered" - One-act play, Theater Center Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
April 1988 - "Crabgrass and Dandelions" - Full-length play, Theater Center Philadelphia
March 1987 - "Final Report," "Another Saturday Night," "Black Market" - One-act plays, Theater Center Philadelphia
Short Fiction
"One Potato, Two Potato" - Philadelphia Stories (online edition), Winter 2009/2010
"Black Market" - Strong Coffee, Chicago, IL, May 1994; Pursuit Magazine, February 1997
"Fly On a Windshield" - Keen Science Fiction!, November 1996
"Love In The Silicon Age" - Aboriginal Science Fiction, Summer 1996
Other Projects
April 2, 2009 - Drexel University Department of Physics Colloquium: "Science Writers: Ink-Stained Wretches or Descendants of Prometheus?"
Spring 2007– American Association for Cancer Research, Philadelphia, PA
Various press and conference materials.
November 2005 - Director of Science Programming, Philadelphia Science Fiction Conference (Philcon)
Spring 2003–present – Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL
Various research highlights for APS Annual Report and Argonne webpage.
A few online articles:
"Seeing the Smallest Steps"
"Glass Does a Double-Take"
"How Two Drops Become One"
"Putting the Pressure on MOFs"
"Nailing Down the Exciton in LiF"
"A Quantum of Vibration in an Unexpected Place"
"Better Switching Through Chemistry in Thin Ferroelectrics"
"Pumping Through the Middle Crust"
"Stressing Out the Twins in Magnesium"
"Cementing the Structure of CSHs"
Summer
1999 - Education Associate Fellowship in Science Writing/History, NASA
Ames Research Center, Mountain View, CA - Various writing &
research projects dealing with NASA history.
As part of its 60th anniversary celebration in 1999, Ames instituted the Ames Hall of Fame to honor important individuals in Ames history. I researched and wrote the biographies of the first twelve inductees. Here are a few that are still available online: Smith DeFrance, Ames's first director
Charlie Hall, Pioneer project director
Dean Chapman, scientist
George Cooper, test pilot
Harold Klein, exobiologist
Hans Mark, Ames director
James Pollack, planetary scientist
Clarence Syvertson, Ames director
I also contributed research to the official 60th Ames anniversary history book, Atmosphere of Freedom: Sixty Years at the NASA Ames Research Center by Dr. Glenn E. Bugos.
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