Nearly from its foundation in fall of 2011 until January 2014, I served as physics and math editor of Double X Science, an online magazine dedicated to the idea that science content isn’t just for men. I also contributed a number of pieces, listed below in reverse chronological order.
- Madame Wu and the backward Universe
- Cosmic coincidence and a potato eclipse
- Parallel Earth and the Evil Matthew Hypothesis
- A tour of physics, “Angry Birds” style
- Scientific realities trump paleofantasies
- Did Einstein write his most famous equation? Does it matter?
- A tour of digestion from nose to um…tail
- Yvonne Brill: she made the satellite revolution possible
- A “Brontosaurus” for you
- How large is a proton?
- Restoring hair with LASERS!!!!!!
- Once in a Blue Moon
- Rest in peace, Sally Ride
- So what’s the big deal about the Higgs boson, anyway?
- To everything (turn turn turn) there is a season
- Survival is gendered, according to Scholastic
- A once-in-a-lifetime Double X event: the transit of Venus
- Age your wine in 10 seconds!!!!!
- Making light in electronics
- Why is the sky pink?
- How fluorescent lights work: quantum mechanics in the home
- You — yes, you — are an astronomer
- Why can you hear around corners, but not see?
- Mirror mirror on the wall, mirrors don’t switch hands at all
- There will never be another Curie, and that’s a good thing
- Science is for everyone, including — GASP! — moms
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