On Woodstock TV

I’ll be on Woodstock’s own TV station tomorrow at 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time as a guest on Bill Pfleging’s Tech Attack. Tune in live at www.woodstocktv.org, and call in to join the conversation at 845-679-7777.This is as close to home as it gets for me....

My desk

This one’s for my friend Ben Zackheim, who wanted to see the results of the office overhaul I did at the beginning of the year.Here’s a little tour for those of you who are also interested:Mac: After five-plus years, it was time to upgrade my desktop...

My PopSci story on a hypersonic airliner

Check out the February Popular Science for my cover story on a European concept for a hypersonic (that is, faster than five times the speed of sound) airliner.If you’re like me and live in a town that doesn’t carry PopSci in any of its stores (gripe,...

On Canada AM

On Wednesday I discussed commercial spaceflight with Seamus O’Regan on Canada AM, CTV’s national morning news show.Check out the interview here. It runs four minutes.

At the Perimeter Institute

Whodathunkit. The little town of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada hosts a world-class research institute attracting physicists from around the world to probe the mysteries of the universe.I’ve just returned from the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, where I...