Astronomy Podcast - Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs): A discussion with Robert Naeye & Andrew Friedman Harvard-Smithsonian Center For Astrophysics Science Media Group, Interview with Robert Naeye, Senior Editor, Sky & Telescope Magazine, (May 10 2006)

During the January 2005 American Astronomical Society conference in San Diego, I was interviewed by a local radio DJ, Onto the Ontologist on his program, "Temporary Autonomous Zones: Dialogue with an Astrophysicist", at http://radioactiveradio.org/. We discuss The Big Bang, the nature of time, parallel universes, astrology, aliens, and the militarization of space [Listen to the mp3]

The MIT Museum exhibit explores the Cosmic Bell Experiment, an international research project including MIT physicists David Kaiser, Alan Guth, and Andrew Friedman that uses astronomical observations to explore the mystery of quantum entanglement. The exhibit was developed with MIT students and museum staff in a MIT Museum Compton Studio workshop.

I was a Science Consultant for NOVA, The Nature of Reality, the physics blog of the PBS TV station, WGBH Boston for Greg Kestin's video “4 Multiverses You Might Be Living In”. Also see Charles Q. Choi's excellent article accompanying the video.

I was a Science Consultant for NOVA, The Nature of Reality, the physics blog of the PBS TV station, WGBH Boston for Greg Kestin's video “What is Gravity Made Of?”, which discusses the potential discovery of early universe, inflationary era, gravity waves by the BICEP2 experiment in Antarctica.

I served as a Science Consultant for the FX TV series "Wilfred", starring Elijah Wood. In Wilfred S3, E10, "Distance" (Aug 15, 2013), Elijah's character, Ryan, needed to investigate wormholes and time machines for some reason. I was asked to write some text for and mock up a hypothetical website about wormholes. They used parts of my text, made their own images, and here is a photographed screenshot of what actually aired. Also see here.

During the January 2014 MIT Independent Activities Period, the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research sponsored a fantastic MIT Art of Astrophysics Competition and exhibit, organized by MIT postdocs Zachary Berta-Thompson and Bryce Croll. Although My Entry and accompanying text (part 1, part 2), Heart of a Star, Revealed, was not among the Prize Winners, all the submissions were fantastic, and I was very happy that Megan Watzke and Kim Arcand of the Chandra X-Ray Center, authors of Your Ticket to the Universe, picked my entry as their unofficial favorite on the Chandra X-Ray Observatory Blog (see the end of their post). Also see here (and here).

I was selected to participate in the UC Santa Cruz Institute for the Philosophy of Cosmology, a 3-week summer workshop sponsored by the Rutgers Templeton Project in the Philosophy of Cosmology. Lecture videos are online under the “Program” link (Jun 23-July 14, 2013)

I was invited to display an art exhibit at the Cafe Gato Rojo, the graduate student cafe inside Dudley House at Harvard University. The opening reception event was held on September 19, 2008 and the exhibit was up for the Fall 2008 semester. As someone who has always been fascinated with geometric art, optical illusions, and the labrynthine sketches of M.C. Escher, I have been fortunate to find myself studying a subject where geometry is king. While geometry governs the motion of everything from baseballs to galaxies, it also determines the expansion history of the universe. And if our current best theories of nature are correct, geometry forms the basis for the fundamental structure of matter, space, and time itself. If mathematical and physical existence are as deeply intertwined as such a picture suggests, the we, beings of matter, are at heart composed of pure shape, folded nothing that has somehow contrived to ponder the nature of its existence, occasionally by drawing it.