Mirror Earth: The Search for Our Planet’s Twin
My 2012 book on the search for habitable planets orbiting stars beyond the Sun
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To Seek Out Distant Life: Astronomers Search for Signs of Life in the Skies of Distant Exoplanets
My July, 2013 cover story in Scientific American magazine on new ways to search for biological activity on planets orbiting distant stars.
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Cosmic Bulletins: Two Major Discoveries Rock Science
Article in TIME about the first direct detection of evidence for cosmic inflation when the universe was a fraction of a fraction of a second old
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Cosmic Dawn: The First Stars in the Universe
Cover story in the April, 2014 Scientific American
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Echo of the Big Bang
My 2003 book about the planning, building and launching of the WMAP satellite, which gave the first precise numbers to the age and composition of the universe, based on its observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation left over from the Big Bang
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Against Rhythm: How Postmodern Humans can Wake Up and Find Their Groove
A TEDx presentation. The objective of this presentation is to introduce the audience to a new and counterintuitive approach to educating for sustainability that focuses on living within the rhythms of the world as it is, not as we imagine it to be. Though sustainability education is rapidly becoming mainstream, it is undercut by a […]
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Transdisciplinarity, Worldview Change, and the Planetary Ecological Crisis
A Presentation from the 2007 Metanexus Institute Conference: There are a number of issues raised by the assertion around which this year’s conference is organized: “the challenge of the 21st century will be to integrate or synthesize the outcomes of the exponential growth in human knowledge into meaningful wholes.” One issue concerns clarity of intent. […]
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Expanding Teilhard’s “Complexity-Consciousness” Law
One of Teilhard’s great discoveries related to the theory of evolution is his Law of Complexity=Consciousness. Simply put, this law reflects the tendency in matter to become more complex over time and at the same time to become more conscious. Teilhard recognized that this tendency in material things toward higher levels of complexity leading to […]
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Easter and Earth Day: life-death-life
This blog places the Easter Story, and Earth Day, in its cosmic setting, reminding readers that...
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8 mins film about Big Bang Summer School
8 mins film about Global Generations work on the Big Bang Summer School 2012.
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