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Selection of newspaper and magazine articles, book reviews, published interviews and web essays

  1. Review of The Singularity is Near by Ray Kurzweil, Nature 440, 421 (2006)
  2. Review of The Labyrinth of Time by Michael Lockwood, Times Higher Education Supplement (in the press)
  3. Review of Introduction to Black Holes, Information & String Theory by Leonard Susskind and James Lindesay in Australian Physicist (in the press)
  4. Review of Nuclear Energy Fallacies by Colin Keay in Australian Physics (in the press)
  5. 'Quantum mechanics and complexity,' Physics World (in the press)
  6. Interview in Belief (ed. Joan Bakewell: Duckworth Publishers, UK, 2006)
  7. ‘Contemplating the cosmos,’ Science & Theology News, April 2006
  8. ‘In search of a second genesis,’ New Scientist, 11 February 2006, p. 48
  9. ‘Viajes en el tiempo,’ Espacio, February 2006, p. 35
  10. Interview "E.T. contact would transform society," Ohmy News, 17 January
    2006, http://english.ohmynews.com/
  11. ‘That mysterious flow,’ Scientific American special edition, January 2006, p. 82
  12. Review of Information and its Role in Nature by J.G. Roederer (Springer 2005) in Australian Physics42, 170 (2006)
  13. ‘A quantum leap of faith,’ The Guardian 20 December 2005
  14. 'Searching for the fourth law,' New Scientist 29 October 2005, p. 51
  15. ‘Living with aliens,’ The Guardian, 8 September 2005
  16. 'A quantum recipe for life,' Nature Vol 437, 819 (2005)
  17. Interview by Helen Joyce in Plus Magazine , web publication, http://plus.maths.org/, July 2005.
  18. Review of Warped Passages by Lisa Randall in Nature, Vol 435, 30 June 2005, p.1161
  19. Review of Looking for Life, Searching the Solar System by P. Clancy, A. Brack and G. Horneck, New Scientist , 25 June 2005, p. 50
  20. 'What I am reading,' BBC Sky at Night Magazine, June issue
  21. Interview in Science & Spirit, May/June 2005, p. 60.
  22. 'Goodbye Mars, hello Earth,' New York Times, 10 April 2005
  23. ‘E = mc 2 centenary survey,’ web publication, http://www.spiked-online.com/sections/science/sciencesurvey/ April 2005
  24. 'Seeking inspiration in science,' Times Higher Education Supplement, 11 March 2005.
  25. Review of Empire of the Stars by Arthur Miller, Literary Review (UK), March 2005
  26. 'Seeking inspiration in science,' Times Higher Education Supplement, 11 March 2005
  27. Review of Empire of the Mind by Arthur Miller, Literary Review (UK, 2005).
  28. 'The sum of the parts,' New Scientist, 5 March 2005, p. 34
  29. 'Chance or creation? Only the multiverse knows for sure,' Science & Theology News, January 2005, p. 35
  30. 'Meeting of the minds,' Science & Spirit, Jan/Feb 2005, p. 34
  31. 'Die botschaft der au b erirdischen in uns,' in Telepolis Magazine (Germany), January 2005, p. 115.
  32. 'Huygens offers scientists a chance to look for life beneath Titan's haze,' Sydney Morning Herald, 28 December 2004.
  33. 'The ascent of life,' New Scientist, 11 December, 2004, p. 30.
  34. Review of How to Clone the Perfect Blonde, by Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham Nature 432, 9 Dec 2004, p. 675.
  35. 'Understand nature's mystery number,' in 100 Things to Do Before You Die (Profile Books, London), p. 33.
  36. 'Sind ausserirdische unterirdische?' Astronomie Heute (Sky & Telescope, Germany) 11 November 2004, p. 22.
  37. 'La vita non è materia: è informazione,' L'Eco di Bergamo, Culture supplement (Italy), 10 October 2004.
  38. 'When time began,' New Scientist Supplement, 9 October 2004, p. 4.
  39. 'Undermining free will,' Foreign Policy Magazine, Sept/Oct 2004, p. 36.
  40. Review of The Road to Reality by Roger Penrose, Focus Magazine (UK), September 2004, p. 84.
  41. 'In defence of the ghost in the machine,' Australian Financial Review, 3 September 2004.
  42. 'Message for the curious: please phone ET, at home,' Sydney Morning Herald, 10 August 2004
  43. 'Do we have to spell it out?' New Scientist, 7 August 2004, p. 30.
  44. 'Minds over matter: 40 Years of Knowledge,' The Australian, 40 Years special supplement, 31 July 2004
  45. 'Be warned, this could be the matrix,' The Sydney Morning Herald, 22 July 2004
  46. 'Human nature to make or break,' The Sunday Times (Australia), 27 June 2004
  47. 'Tax slug floors creative entrepreneurs,' The Australian, 10 May 2004
  48. 'Einstein the first spin doctor,' The Guardian, 10 April 2004
  49. 'Review of The Fabric of the Cosmos,' by Brian Greene, Nature 428, 18 March 2004, p. 257
  50. '2500 years on, the big question remains: how long is a piece of string theory?' Sydney Morning Herald, 25 February 2004
  51. 'Life (and death) on Mars,' New York Times, 15 January 2004
  52. 'Dark forces of the cosmos,' The Bulletin (Australia), December 10, 2003, p. 58
  53. 'Time and notion,' The Bulletin (Australia), November 5, 2003
  54. 'Reality in the melting pot,' The Guardian (UK) September 23, 2003
  55. 'ET & God,' Atlantic Monthly, September 2003, p. 112.
  56. 'Un puzzle cosmologico,' KOS (Italy), 215/6 (August-September 2003), p. 26.
  57. 'Out of this world,' in How the Earth Works, The Daily Telegraph supplement (Australia), 18 March 2003
  58. 'Mars attracts,' The Bulletin (Australia), 6 August 2003
  59. 'The other side of infinity,' The Australian, 15 July 2003
  60. 'Born lucky,' New Scientist, 12 July 2003
  61. 'A brief history of the multiverse,' New York Times, 12 April 2003
  62. 'Was Einstein wrong?' Prospect Magazine (UK), April 2003
  63. Review of Faster than the speed of light, by Joao Magueijo, Prospect Magazine, April 2003
  64. 'Time: exploring the fourth dimension,' Focus Magazine (UK) No. 124, March 2003
  65. 'Universal truths,' The Guardian (UK) 23 January 2003
  66. 'Is anyone out there? ' The Guardian (UK) 22 January 2003
  67. 'Is this how life on Earth began?' The Daily Telegraph (UK) 21 January 2003
  68. 'Cradle of life,' The Bulletin (Australia), 14 January, 2003, p. 29
  69. 'The best of times, the worst of times,' Sydney Morning Herald 1 January 2003
  70. 'Now is the reason for our discontent,' The Age, 1 January 2003
  71. 'How we could create life,' The Guardian (UK) December 11, 2002
  72. 'The cradle of life,' The Bulletin (Australia), December 11, 2002
  73. 'It's true, men really are from Mars,' The Guardian (UK) October 30, 2002
  74. 'Camping in the cradle of life,' The Bulletin, October, 2002
  75. 'Seven wonders,' New Scientist, September 21, 2002
  76. 'Life may not add up, but it computes,' The Guardian (UK) August 01, 2002
  77. 'Not so fast Einstein, light's got the brakes on,' Sydney Morning Herald, 8 August 2002
  78. 'Consciousness: Paul Davies talks to Stephen Jones at Tucson II,' www.culture.com.au/brain_proj, 19 June 2002
  79. 'End of the universe,' The Bulletin (Australia), 12 June 2002
  80. 'Can time run backwards?' The Bulletin, March 2002
  81. 'Looking out for the mother of all comets,' Sydney Morning Herald,10 January 2002  
  82. 'Time travel,' The Age, 24 November 2001
  83. 'Liquid space,' New Scientist, 3 November 2001
  84. 'Stuck at the last temporal turnstile, The Times Higher Education Supplement, 2 November 2001
  85. 'Buying time,' The Guardian (UK), 18 October 2001
  86. Review of Nine Crazy Ideas in Science by Robert Erlich and Time Travel in Einstein's Universe by J.R. Gott, Nature 413, 27 September 2001, p.354.
  87. 'Life among the stars,' The Advertiser (Australia), 4 August 2001
  88. 'Journey from the centre of the earth,' The Bulletin, 29 May 2001
  89. 'Journey from the centre of the Earth,' The Bulletin, 23 May 2001
  90. 'ET phone in ... please,' Sydney Morning Herald, 28 April 2001  
  91. 'Life in the underworld,' The Bulletin April 2001
  92. 'Armageddon times,' The Bulletin, 27 March 2001
  93. 'The great red hope,' Sydney Morning Herald, 24 February 2001
  94. 'A spasso nel tempo,' Internazionale 370, 26 January 2001, p.40
  95. 'Taking the time to travel,' The Advertiser, 9 December 2000
  96. 'Know the future,' The Bulletin, 21 November 2000
  97. 'Time loops,' The Third Culture, Edge interview, 31 October, 2000.
  98. 'Many questions, some answers,' (with Steven Weinberg), discussion transcribed by Timothy Ferris, Forbes Magazin e, USA, 2 October 2000
  99. 'Is that qualia in your circuits? ' Sydney Morning Herald, 16 September 2000
  100. 'Weblife: on the move,' The Guardian, 31 August 2000
  101. 'Life among the stars,' The Advertiser, August 2001
  102. Contribution to the Space Series Lift-Out, The Advertiser, January 2001
  103. 'Time travel,' The Advertiser, 9 December 2000
  104. 'Bang goes Einstein's speed of light theory,' S ydney Morning Herald, 21 July 2000
  105. 'Consciousness' The Advertiser, 20 July 2000
  106. 'Light goes backwards in time,' The Guardian, 20 July 2000
  107. 'Quantum computing: a key to unlocking the ultimate reality?' Science and Spirit, May/June 2000
  108. 'The truth is out there - or is it?' The Bulletin, May 2000
  109. 'Are we still alone?' The Advertiser, Weekend Magazine, 6 May 2000
  110. 'Flattening the universal idea,' The Advertiser, 29 April 2000
  111. 'Time and notion,' The Bulletin, 21 March 2000, p.19
  112. Article in The Sunday Age (Australia), 19 March 2000.
  113. 'How to get to Mars (and back),' The Advertiser, 11 March 2000
  114. 'Time...the final frontier,' The Times Higher Education Supplement (UK), 10 March 2000
  115. 'Time travel,' The Bulletin, March 2000
  116. 'Martian life on earth: the test,' The Advertiser, 15 January 2000
  117. 'The gospel according to science,' The Times Higher Education Supplement, 28 January 2000
  118. 'It's a bug's life,' The Guardian, 13 January 2000
  119. 'The quest for the dream machine,' The Bulletin, 11 January 2000
  120. 'Looking for life in the vast lane,' The Sunday Age, 2 January 2000
  121. 'Unsolved problems of cosmology,' The Weekend Australian, 18-19 December 1999
  122. 'Search for life beyond Earth,' The Weekend Australian, 18-19 December 1999
  123. 'Why we still believe in aliens, regardless of the facts, ' The Age, 6 November 1999
  124. 'A brief history of aliens,' Good Weekend Magazine (Australia), October 1999
  125. 'At the crossroads,' Forbes Magazine, 4 October 1999, p. 231
  126. 'Is there life out there?' The Wall Street Journal, 24 September 1999
  127. 'Life force,' New Scientist, 18 September 1999, p. 27
  128. 'When it comes to the crunch,' Good Weekend Magazine, 18 September 1999
  129. 'If you're out there, ET, log on,' Search Lites, Spring 1999
  130. 'Life. But not as we know it,' The Bulletin, 10 August 1999
  131. 'We're all Martians,' Ottawa Citizen, 7 August 1999
  132. 'Cosmic calamity,' The Times Higher Education Supplement, 23 July 1999
  133. 'Cosmic dreams,' The Australian, 21 July 1999
  134. 'The end of the world' The Sydney Morning Herald, Millennium Project, June 1999
  135. 'Masters of the universe,' The Guardian, 8 April 1999
  136. 'Small is beautiful as nanobes reveal we are not alone,' The Guardian, 20 March 1999
  137. 'Bit before it?' New Scientist, 30 January 1999, p. 3
  138. 'La mente de Dios,' Boletín de Información, Fundación BBV, 1999 edition, p. 3
  139. 'Microbes won't survive interstellar travel,' SearchLites, Spring 1999
  140. 'Star warps,' Forbes ASAP, 30 November 1998
  141. 'Reach for the sky,' The Advertiser, 24 October 1998
  142. 'Ants in the machine,' Sydney Morning Herald, 17 October 1998
  143. 'Chaos theory and economics, The Age, 17 October 1998
  144. 'Survivors from Mars,' New Scientist, 12 September 1998, p. 24
  145. 'Facing the quest for the ultimate antique final frontier,' The Advertiser, 12 September 1998
  146. 'To Earth, with love,' University of Adelaide Student Newspaper, 24 August 1998
  147. 'Aliens,' The Sydney Morning Herald, 22 August 1998
  148. Melbourne Writers' Festival keynote address reprinted, The Age, 22 August 1998
  149. 'Why the human race might not exist if evolution returned to square one,' The Times Higher Education Supplement, 7 August 1998
  150. 'The mating gene,' The Dominion (New Zealand), August 1998
  151. 'Where did life begin?' The Age Magazine, Good Weekend Magazine, 1 August 1998, p.14
  152. 'In the beginning, there was...?' The Advertiser, 1 August 1998
  153. 'When science and theology collide,' The Age, 18 July 1998
  154. 'The mating gene,' The Age, 2 July 1998
  155. 'Rich pickings,' The Sydney Morning Herald, 25 April 1998
  156. 'Paradox lost,' New Scientist, 21 March 1998, p. 27
  157. 'Moon of mystery,' The Age, 14 March 1998
  158. 'When worlds collide,' The Sydney Morning Herald, 13 March 1998
  159. 'Scientific thirst. Ice on the moon,' Sydney Morning Herald, 7 March 1998
  160. 'Richard Feynman, spirit of the new physics,' Obituary in The Guardian, February 1998.
  161. 'The next step,' The West Australian, 1 November 1997
  162. 'Time's arrow,' New Scientist, 1 November 1997
  163. 'Strange times,' New Scientist, 1 November 1997
  164. 'How we'll conquer,' Sydney Morning Herald, 18 October 1997
  165. 'The Martian,' The Age, 12 July 1997
  166. 'Seeing red,' Sydney Morning Herald,' 12 July 1997
  167. 'Could life on Earth have started on the red planet?' The Sunday Age, 6 July 1997
  168. 'Are we alone? UFOs, alien abductions events - until we wake up.' Sydney Morning Herald, 7 June 1997
  169. 'Martians attack!' The Age, 14 June 1997
  170. 'Mars,' PM Magazine, December 1996
  171. 'The future of God,' The Sydney Morning Herald, 21 December 1996
  172. 'Next stop Mars,' The Weekend Review, 2-3 November 1996
  173. 'Where are all the extraterrestrials?' New Scientist, 5 October 1996
  174. 'Complexity,' The Statesman Festival, 1996, p.115
  175. 'Shaking light from the void,' Nature, 29 August 1996, p.761
  176. 'Belief in tranquility,' The Weekend Review, 17 - 18 August 1996
  177. 'Are we home alone?' The Sunday Age, 11 August 1996
  178. 'We are probably not alone,' The Sydney Morning Herald, 10 August1996
  179. 'Why we may once have been Martians,' The Sydney Morning Herald, 8 August 1996
  180. 'Are we really all Martians?' The Advertiser, 8 August 1996
  181. ' Mars: The missing link ?' The Age, 8 August 1996
  182. 'Cause, effect and cosmic lottery,' The Australian, 12 June 1996
  183. 'Where did the Big Bang come from?' World Press Review, May 1996
  184. 'Return to consciousness,' The Australian, 22 May 1996
  185. 'The day time began,' New Scientist, 27 April 1996, p. 30
  186. 'The improbable cosmic lottery,' The Australian, 2 April 1996
  187. 'Review of Extraterrestrial Intelligence,' by Jean Heidmann, The Times Higher, 22 March 1996
  188. 'No life on Mars may be a thing of the past,' The Australian, 13 March 1996
  189. 'Is the universe a free lunch?' Independent on Sunday, 3 March 1996
  190. 'Que es el infinito?' Conocer, February 1996, p.64
  191. 'The harmony of the spheres,' Time Magazine, 5 February 1996, p.58
  192. 'Is there life in outer space,' Time Magazine, 5 February 1996, p. 44
  193. 'Hawking won't toe particle line,' The Australian, 24 January 1996
  194. 'Proofs of God in a photon?' Independent on Sunday, 24 December 1995
  195. 'To sleep, perchance to dream,' The Australian, 15 November 1995
  196. 'A novel approach to temporal anomalies,' The Australian, 1 November 1995
  197. 'A brief history of time travel: some scenarios,' The Australian, 11 October 1995
  198. 'Are we alone?' The Advertiser Weekend Magazine, 7 October 1995
  199. 'Hatte Gott keine Wahl, al ser di Groben im Universum schuf?' PM Magazine, September 1995, p.16
  200. 'El mito de la materia,' Conocer, September 1995, p.68
  201. Review of The Emperor's New Mind by Roger Penrose, The Times Higher Education Supplement, 15 September 1995
  202. 'Military cover-up or elaborate hoax?' The Australian, 6 September 1995
  203. 'Aqui la Tierra. Digame?' Conocer, July 1995, p.6
  204. 'Antigravity returns in theoretical starring role,' The Australian, 19 July 1995
  205. 'Neural networking,' The Times Higher Education Supplement 26 May 1995
  206. 'Could life have been delivered by meteor?" The Australian, 24 May 1995
  207. 'The thought that counts,' New Scientist, 6 May 1995
  208. 'Getting to grips with God: science and the superbeing,' The Guardian, 4 May 1995
  209. 'How science robs us of time's mystery,' The Daily Telegraph (UK), 3 May 1995
  210. 'Before the big bang,' The Australian Higher Education Supplemen t, 9 March 1994
  211. 'Are we alone?' Focus Magazine, March 1995, p. 40
  212. 'The big crunch, Science Spectra, January 1995, p.8
  213. 'Twists in time,' 21'C, January 1995, p.20
  214. 'Is anybody out there? ET, phone Earth now!' The Australian, 18 January 1995
  215. 'On the meaning of Mach's principle,' File 940922Mach from the Go2 archive of The Guardian OnLine © Guardian Newspapers Ltd
  216. 'Le leggi del caso,' Sfera, November/December 1994, p.40
  217. 'It's such a difficult age!' The Guardian, 10 November 1994
  218. 'How the world will end,' The Advertiser, 5 November 1994
  219. 'Ich hab's! Ich hab's!' PM Magazine, November 1994
  220. 'Un cometa gigante amenaza a la tierra,' Conocer, November 1994, p.6
  221. 'Die Marionette tanzt, doch Faden sind,' PM Magazine, September 1994
  222. 'Adventures of discovery,' Times Educational Supplement, 16 September 1994
  223. 'Birth of the clever city,' The Guardian, 15 September 1994
  224. 'Free will: it's all so predictable,' The Australian, 17 August 1994
  225. 'The birth of the universe,' 21'C, Autumn 1994, p.96
  226. 'God is a pure mathematician,' Miscellany, 26 June 1994
  227. 'The nature of consciousness,' Miscellany, 19 June 1994
  228. 'Life and consciousness,' Miscellany, 12 June 1994
  229. 'Mysteries of the mind,' Miscellany, 5 June 1994
  230. 'The mystery of consciousness,' Miscellany, 29 May 1994
  231. 'Close encounters, ' The Weekend Australian, 28 - 29 May 1994
  232. 'Search shifts below ground for rocky beginnings of life,' The Australian, 11 May 1994
  233. 'Ubiquitous spanner in the works,' The Australian, 13 April 1994
  234. 'Life before time began,' The Australian, 9 March 1994
  235. 'Como funciona la mente de Dios,' Conocer, February 1994, p.64
  236. 'Urkraft elektrizitat: Was steckt dahinter?' PM Magazine, January 1994
  237. 'New light on black holes,' (paper? ) January 1994, p.84
  238. 'Can you beat the clock?' Physics World, December 1993, p.7
  239. 'Leichter als nichts - das soll es ... geben?' PM Magazine, December 1993
  240. 'From chaos to natural organization,' The Australian, 22 September 1993
  241. 'About time,' The National Trust Magazine, Spring 1993
  242. 'The future for traveling in time,' Focus, November 1993, p.50
  243. 'Time bends,' The Guardian, 12 August 1993
  244. Review of Cranks, Quarks and the Cosmos: Writings of Science, by Jeremy Bernstein, Natural History, July 1993, p.68
  245. 'Nuevas teorias sobre el origen de la vida,' Conocer, July 1993, p.4
  246. 'Distant thunder of dying stars,' The Guardian, 15 July 1993
  247. 'The ultimate vanishing act,' Discover Magazine, October 1993
  248. Review of Dreams of a Final Theory by Steven Weinberg, 21C, Winter 1993, p.83
  249. Reviews of Dreams of a Final Theory by Steven Weinberg and The God Particle by Leon Lederman, The New York Times Book Review, 7 March 1993
  250. 'Die gespenstischen boten, die unser,' PM Magazine, March 1993
  251. 'Asi sera el final del universo,' Conocer, March 1993, p.20
  252. 'Die schreckl. leere im inneren der materiek,' PM Magazine, February 1993
  253. 'La dimensione dell universo,' Sfera, February 1993, p.80
  254. 'The mind of God,' Resurgence, September/October 1992, p.36
  255. 'In tune with universe but lost for words,' The Advertiser, 17 August 1992
  256. 'Are we alone?' The Weekend Australian, 1,2 August 1992
  257. 'In der tachyoneenwelt trifft ein pfeil schon.. 'PM Magazine, August1992, p.18
  258. 'Fact or fiction,' The Sunday Age, 12 July 1992
  259. 'The first one second of the universe,' Mercury, May/June 1992
  260. 'Has man mastered the universe?' The Weekend Australian, 2/3 May 1992
  261. 'Woher kommt die energie?' PM Magazine, June 1992, p.12
  262. 'The matter myth,' Island, Autumn 1992, p.28
  263. 'Science, God and the laws of the universe,' 24 hours, August 1992
  264. 'Ripples but no waves,' The Guardian, 1 July 1992
  265. 'Has man mastered the universe?' The Weekend Australian City Edition,2/3 May 1992
  266. 'Cracking the code of cosmic maths,' The Weekend Review, 28-29 March 1992
  267. 'Is nature mathematical?' New Scientist, 21 March 1992
  268. 'Message of the cosmic cryptogram,' The Guardian, 13 March 1992
  269. 'How did humans get so smart?' Daily Telegraph, 2 March 1992
  270. 'The mind of God,' OMNI, February 1992, p.4
  271. 'Project Columbus embarks on an extra-terrestrial voyage,' The News, 26 February 1992
  272. 'Die gesetze, denen das all gehorcht Gott?' PM Magazine, January 1992
  273. 'Wormholes and time machines,' Sky and Telescope, January 1992, p.20
  274. 'Self-organising the rhythm of life,' The News, 8 January 1992
  275. 'Time's arrow may turn,' The News, 18 December 1991
  276. 'Warming to sunspot theory,' The News, 11 December 1991
  277. 'Bicentenary for father of modern computer,' The News, 4 December 1991
  278. 'Casting a spying eye over the heavens,' The News, 18 November 1991
  279. 'New wave research opens up the universe,' The News, 16 November 1991
  280. 'End of the machine age,' The Daily Telegraph (UK), 30 September 1991
  281. 'God and science, 21C, Autumn 1991
  282. Review of The Big Bang Never Happened < by Eric Lerner, The New York Times, 28 July 1991
  283. 'Gebt mir elnen superstarken sender, und,' PM Magazine, February 1991
  284. 'Mystery of rays, quarks and globs,' The News, 7 October 1991
  285. 'Waves of paradox,' The Weekend Australian, 20 - 21 October 1990
  286. 'Chaos frees the universe,' New Scientist, 6 October 1990
  287. 'Big Bang theory may be big blooper,' The News, 30 September 1990
  288. 'Great balls of lightning,' The Advertiser, 28 September 1990
  289. 'The clever country must mobilize its natural creativity,' The Sunday Age, 23 September 1990
  290. 'Solving the mysterious corn hoax,' The News, 23 September 1991
  291. 'Science struggles with timely challenge,' The News, 16 September 1991
  292. 'Thinking' computer on line,' The News, 16 September 1991
  293. 'Chaos,' 24 Hours (Australia), November 1990, p. 40
  294. 'Chaos frees the universe,' New Scientist, 6 October 1990, p. 36
  295. 'Wimps' may decide the fate of the universe,' The Advertiser, 23 August 1990
  296. 'Time travel, the fact in the science fiction,' The Weekend Australian, 21-22 July 1990
  297. 'Baby universes and cosmic Darwinism,' The Independent (UK), 11 June 1990
  298. 'Galactic vacuum cleaners in space,' Sunday Correspondent, 8 April 1990
  299. 'Matter-antimatter,' Sky and Telescope, March 1990, p.257
  300. 'Geist im atom,' PM Magazine, February 1990, p.14
  301. 'Science is falling into a black hole,' The Independent on Sunday, 11 February 1990
  302. 'Space, time and the superbeing,' The Times Higher Education Supplement, 5 January 1990
  303. 'Minds over molecular matter,' The Sunday Times, 12 November 1989
  304. 'Es gibt doch ein schlupfloch im all,' PM Magazine, October 1989
  305. Review of A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking, Contemporary Physics 30, 135 (1989)
  306. 'The heavy emptiness of space,' The Independent, 24 July 1989
  307. 'Let them eat crumbs...' The Guardian, 9 May 1989
  308. 'Brain drain putting science in crisis, claims professor,' The Daily Telegraph, 28 March 1989
  309. 'Eine welle kommt selten allein, uuber es ist,' PM Magazine, March 1989
  310. 'Ist alles wahr, was Wissenschaftler sagen?' PM Magazine, February 1989
  311. Review of A Physicist's Guide to Skepticism by Milton A. Rothman, Nature 336, 10 November 1988, p. 121
  312. 'Law and order in the universe,' New Scientist, 15 October 1988, p. 58.
  313. 'Der schlauch ist dunner als ein haar-und,' PM Magazine, May 1988
  314. 'Das ringen des verstandes mit der,' PM Magazine, February 1988
  315. 'Great balls of fire,' New Scientist 24/31 December 1987, p. 64
  316. 'Jetzt - und schon ist est vorbei!' PM Magazine, December 1987
  317. 'Das grobe ratsel gegenwart. Jetzt - und,' PM Magazine, December 1987
  318. 'The creative cosmos,' New Scientist, 17 December 1987, p. 41
  319. 'Die unsichtbaren netze, in denen wir alle...' PM Magazine, November 1987
  320. 'World without end after all,' The Guardian, 23 October 1987
  321. 'Was die welt zusammenhalt,' Die Zeit nr 42, 9 October 1987
  322. 'Forscher experimentieren mit antimaterie,' PM Magazine, June 1987
  323. 'Der mensch ist ein mensch. Und eine,' PM Magazine, March 1987
  324. 'Kann der mensch die zeit denn nie'zu, PM Magazine, August 1986
  325. 'Die zeit: jeder weisse, was das ist - bis er..,' PM Magazine, July 1986
  326. 'Kann die wissenschaft die groben,' PM Magazine, June 1986
  327. 'Ist der glaube an Gott noch wiss. Haltbar? PM Magazine, April 1986
  328. 'Was bleibt vom weltall ubrig, wenn man,' PM Magazine, February 1986
  329. Review of The Loitering Universe and Other Stories by Jeremy Gibbon, New Scientist, 19/26 December 1985, p. 71
  330. 'New physics and the new big bang,' Sky and Telescope, November 1985, p. 406
  331. 'Schwarze locher,' PM Magazine, September 1985, p.44
  332. 'What's wrong with becoming a female physicist?' Guardian, 27 September 1984
  333. 'New physics and the new big bang,' Sky and Telescope, August 1985
  334. 'Do particles really exist?' New Scientist, 2 May 1985, p. 40
  335. 'Paul Dirac: a quantum pioneer,' New Scientist, 8 November 1984, p. 42
  336. Review of The Hidden Universe by Michael Disney, New Scientist, 1 November 1984, p. 49
  337. 'The best of all possible worlds?' New Scientist, 23 August 1984, p. 29
  338. 'Die moglichkeit, dab es welten gibt, die wir,' PM Magazine, July 1984
  339. Review of In Search of Reality by Bernard d'Espagnat, New Scientist, 17 May 1984, p. 49
  340. 'The eleven dimensions of reality,' New Scientist, 9 February 1984, p. 31
  341. 'The eleventh dimension,' Science Digest (USA), January 1984, p.72
  342. 'The anthropic principle,' Science Digest 191, October 1983, p.24
  343. 'God and the new physics,' Science Digest (USA), September 1983
  344. 'Quarks, quasars and the meaning of life,' Telegraph Sunday Magazine (London), 7 August 1983
  345. 'God and the new physics,' New Scientist, 23 June 1983, p. 872
  346. Review of The Way the World Is by John Polkinghorne, New Scientist, 2 June 1983, p. 638
  347. 'The origin of life: Earth's lucky break,' Science Digest, May 1983, p.36
  348. 'The inflationary universe,' The Sciences (USA), 23, March/April 1983, p. 32
  349. 'How the pioneers of the new physics have thrown more light on God,' The Guardian, 31 March 1983
  350. 'Speculations,' Science Digest (USA), March 1983
  351. 'Albert Einstein is a real human being,' New Scientist, 17 February 1983
  352. Review of Infinity and the Mind by Rudy Rucker, Nature 301, 13 January 1983, p. 181
  353. Review of Plurality of Worlds by Steven Dick, New Scientist, 7 October 1982, p. 37
  354. Review of Superspace and Supergravity by S.W. Hawking and M. Rocek (eds.), The Sciences 22, May/June 1982, p. 24
  355. 'Something for nothing,' New Scientist, 27 May 1982, p. 580
  356. Review of The Science of Spacetime by Derek Raine and Michael Heller, Nature 297, 27 May 1982, p. 345
  357. 'Creative impulse,' The Guardian, 20 May 1982
  358. Review of Cosmology, Physics and Philosophy by Benjamin Gal-Or, New Scientist, 13 May 1982, p. 439
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