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May 24, 2025 by user

Pages

  • Tech, Fiction, & the Future (August 19, 2015)
  • Interviews (September 28, 2015)
  • Contact Bill (September 30, 2015)
  • Gallery (September 30, 2015)
  • About (December 14, 2015)
  • Acclaim (July 6, 2016)
  • Jacked Arts (November 17, 2016)
  • Capitol Kid Challenge (March 12, 2017)
  • Toons (January 19, 2019)
  • Interviews – Secrets (January 31, 2019)
  • Book Trailer (April 13, 2020)

Library

  • Outside the Box, Poems (July 4, 2016)
  • Unfamiliar Fruit, Volume I (July 5, 2016)
  • GERMS & FURY (July 6, 2016)
  • GAMES & FATE (July 6, 2016)
  • GRAVITY & FIRE (July 6, 2016)
  • Capitol Kid (July 6, 2016)
  • Attic Ward (July 6, 2016)
  • Court Kasie (September 1, 2017)
  • Castle Keep (September 12, 2018)
  • WIRED: How AI Can Help Prevent Natural Disasters (January 21, 2019)
  • OneZero: It’s Time to Resurrect the Airship Hospitals (March 16, 2020)
  • Popular Science: Can we make ourselves more empathetic? (April 6, 2021)
  • Popular Science: Music for the Menagerie (April 28, 2021)
  • Popular Science: The pandemic could be a long-awaited turning point for telemedicine (May 13, 2021)
  • Popular Science: Harnessing the Sun (September 15, 2021)
  • Popular Science: The Brilliant 10: The most innovative up-and-coming minds in science (September 20, 2021)
  • Popular Science: Riding the Wind (September 26, 2021)
  • Popular Science: Hold the Ice (December 8, 2021)
  • Popular Science: The rise of the rodents (March 1, 2022)
  • Popular Science: 150th Anniversary Series (May 5, 2022)
  • Popular Science: The resurgence of open public streets is a centuries-old idea (May 12, 2022)
  • Popular Science: What it would take for cars to actually fly (May 31, 2022)
  • Popular Science: Radium was once cast as an elixir of youth. Are today’s ideas any better? (June 8, 2022)
  • Popular Science: Will baseball ever replace umpires with robots? (July 3, 2022)
  • Popular Science: Why hasn’t Henry Ford’s ideal power grid become a reality? (July 31, 2022)
  • Popular Science: The century-old dream of traveling by hovercraft is still alive (August 14, 2022)
  • Popular Science: When will we finally have jetpacks? (August 25, 2022)
  • Popular Science: How (Not) To Build Your Own Scuba Gear (September 1, 2022)
  • Popular Science: The centuries-long quest to map the seafloor’s hidden secrets (September 15, 2022)
  • Popular Science: Is it finally time for a permanent base on the moon? (September 22, 2022)
  • Popular Science: High-speed rail trains are stalled in the US—and that might not change for a while (October 14, 2022)
  • Popular Science: Could quantum physics unlock teleportation? (October 21, 2022)
  • Popular Science: Why we still don’t have a vaccine for the common cold (November 2, 2022)
  • Popular Science: Trap Cosmic Rays in a Jar (November 5, 2022)
  • Popular Science: A DIY voice assistant from 1950 could mute a radio and control toy trains (February 1, 2023)
  • Muse Magazine: Science@Work, Interview with Mark Vande Hei (February 8, 2023)
  • Popular Science: A 1967 foot-powered tool you could build today—if you wanted to (April 26, 2023)
  • Muse Magazine: Unveiling the Secrets of the Seafloor (July 1, 2023)
  • Popular Science: An electric cow, a robot mailman, and other automatons we overestimated (July 16, 2023)
  • Popular Science: This gadget from 1930 let people ‘talk’ to the dead—with a magic trick (September 15, 2023)
  • Popular Science: How to use 3D glasses from 1954 today (November 8, 2023)
  • Muse Magazine: When a Volcano Screams (December 10, 2023)
  • Popular Science: Why don’t we use more driving simulators to teach teenage drivers? (February 6, 2024)
  • Muse Magazine: Robot Reflections (February 26, 2024)
  • MIT Technology Review: Journey to the Eclipse (March 3, 2024)
  • Popular Science: The decades-long quest for lab-grown organs (March 5, 2024)
  • Popular Science: Carl Sagan in 1986: “Voyager has become a new kind of intelligent being…” (March 31, 2024)
  • Popular Science: In 1919, one eclipse chaser wanted to mount a telescope on a seaplane (April 7, 2024)
  • Popular Science: When surgery was a public spectacle (April 7, 2024)
  • MIT Technology Review: What tech learned from Daedalus (May 1, 2024)
  • Popular Science: Humanity’s never-ending quest to control the weather (May 1, 2024)
  • Popular Science: May 1924—George Mallory’s tragic quest to conquer Everest (May 21, 2024)
  • Popular Science: The quest to craft the perfect artificial eye, through the ages (June 1, 2024)
  • MIT Technology Review: Toys can change your life (July 7, 2024)
  • Popular Science: How to make a coffee can camera—in 1961 and today (July 7, 2024)
  • Popular Science: How to make a walkie talkie for your dog (July 15, 2024)
  • Popular Science: How plant hunting has evolved over the centuries (July 18, 2024)
  • Popular Science: 100 years of aliens—From Mars beavers to little gray men (August 14, 2024)
  • Popular Science: On August 6, 1991, Tim Berners-Lee introduced the World Wide Web (August 14, 2024)
  • Popular Science: In 1929 the Graf Zeppelin becomes the first ship to sail around the world—by air (August 29, 2024)
  • MIT Technology Review: Will computers ever feel responsible? (August 29, 2024)
  • Popular Science: In 1928, the discovery of ‘mold juice’ would go on to save 500 million lives (September 28, 2024)
  • Popular Science: The fascinating, rocky history of the ubiquitous Xerox (October 22, 2024)
  • MIT Technology Review: Green Revolution Redux (October 23, 2024)
  • Popular Science: The uber-optimistic history and prolonged future of space tourism (November 1, 2024)
  • Popular Science: November 2, 2000: The first residents move into the International Space Station (November 2, 2024)
  • Popular Science: December 17, 1903 – The Wright brothers take flight, drama ensues (December 29, 2024)
  • Popular Science: In 1928, Eric the Robot promised the robo-butler of the future (December 29, 2024)
  • Popular Science: Valentine’s Day 1946—The first general-purpose electronic computer blossoms (February 15, 2025)
  • Popular Science: 100 years of deep-sea filmmaking and ocean exploration (March 16, 2025)
  • Popular Science: Why we can’t squash the common cold, even after 100 years of studying it (April 10, 2025)

Events

  • Capitol Kid in Online Bookstores… (September 28, 2015)
  • Delmarva Public Radio Show – Writer’s Edition (November 23, 2015)
  • Delmarva Review Reading at The Writer’s Center (January 14, 2016)
  • Goodreads Giveaway! – Capitol Kid (January 19, 2016)
  • Capitol Kid – Kindle Free Book Promotion! (February 9, 2016)
  • Attic Ward now available at online bookstores! (October 21, 2016)
  • Literary Hill BookFest! (March 8, 2017)
  • BookExpo Author Talk! (May 31, 2017)
  • Literary Hill Book Fest 2018! (April 12, 2018)
  • Castle Keep Now Available! (February 3, 2019)
  • Literary Hill BookFest 2019 (February 18, 2019)
  • #DeepTechReporting – Science Writers 2021 (September 26, 2021)

Posts

  • A New Novel – Capitol Kid – Now Available (October 5, 2015)
  • Q&A with Publishers Weekly (October 21, 2015)
  • Library Journal Accepts GLIDE in SELF-e Select Program (December 15, 2015)
  • Library Journal accepts Nu Logic and Gene.sys into Self-E Select (January 14, 2016)
  • The Future of Sound is Here! (February 19, 2016)
  • The Sound of Gravity (June 15, 2016)
  • Mobile InSecurity (September 5, 2016)
  • The Orphan and the Art Heist (October 21, 2016)
  • The Science Behind Forgery (January 1, 2017)
  • The Virtues of Indie Book Reviews in Publishers Weekly (June 22, 2017)
  • The DREAMer and the Supreme Court (October 21, 2017)
  • The Washingtonian Guest List? What an honor! (November 30, 2017)
  • The Literary Hill’s Gifts of Reading (December 11, 2017)
  • Don’t Miss the 2018 Literary Hill BookFest (April 20, 2018)
  • My WIRED article on AI in Conservation (July 10, 2018)
  • Check Out Delmarva Review Volume 11 (November 1, 2018)
  • Sneak Preview – Castle Keep (January 18, 2019)
  • Amerigo’s Foot (January 21, 2019)
  • To Write (January 21, 2019)
  • New Cap City Kids Book Release (February 3, 2019)
  • Check Out Delmarva Review Volume 12 (November 22, 2019)
  • So Many Books, So Little Time: Literary Hill Book Fest 2020 (March 8, 2020)
  • When Life Hands You A Quarantine…Go Virtual (March 13, 2020)
  • Checkout My OneZero Article on Aerial Hospitals (March 16, 2020)
  • Popular Science “Can we make ourselves more empathetic?” (April 6, 2021)
  • Popular Science “The pandemic could be a long-awaited turning point for telemedicine” (May 13, 2021)
  • Popular Science “The Brilliant 10: The most innovative up-and-coming minds in science” (September 20, 2021)
  • Making the Invisible Visible: Challenges to Explaining Deep Tech (October 7, 2021)
  • Delmarva Review Volume 14 – Our Best Yet (November 4, 2021)
  • Blasts from the Past: Popular Science Turns 150 (May 5, 2022)
  • Delmarva Review Volume 15 – Don’t Miss This One (November 11, 2022)
  • My Apple News Today Interview: Why Don’t We Have a Universal Common Cold Vaccine? (November 15, 2022)
  • Johns Hopkins University Excellence in Teaching Award! (June 1, 2023)
  • Delmarva Review Volume 16 – Inspired! (November 15, 2023)

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