Select Essays
The Physical World
- In the Beginning
- Goldilocks and the Three Planets
- Water, Water
- On Being Round
- The Coriolis Force
- The Tidal Force
- The Five Points of Lagrange
- Going Ballistic
- On Earth As in the Heavens
- The Periodic Table of the Cosmos
- Stick-in-the-Mud Astronomy
- Let There Be Light
- The Importance of Being Constant
- Coming Attractions
- The Greatest Story Ever Told
- Ends of the World
- The Search for Planets
Cultural Reflections
- The Power of a Cosmic Perspective
- The Perimeter of Ignorance
- The Cosmic Perspective
- In Defense of the Big Bang
- Pluto’s Honor
- Holy Wars
- The Search for Life in the Universe
- The Universe as a Muse
- By Any Other Name
- Fear of Numbers
- Hollywood Nights
- Let There Be Dark
- Footprints in the Sands of Science
- A Perfect World
- Doubling Time