+ Popular Articles & Essays Selection of newspaper and magazine articles, book reviews, published interviews and web essays
- 'Out of the ether,' New Scientist, 2011.
- 'Putting scientists on Mars in permanent colonies', Interview, Wired Magazine, 2011
- ‘That mysterious flow,’ Scientific American: Special Collector's Edition,’ Spring 2012.
- ‘How to build a time machine?,’ Scientific American: Special Collector's Edition,’ Spring 2012.
- ‘Hello, is anybody out there?’, The Australian, 3 August 2011.
- ‘Faith in the mathematical order’, World Science Festival: Topics: Life Season 2011: Episode 04.15.11.
- 'A Bacterium that can grow by using Arsenic instead of Phosphorus,' with Felisa Wolfe-Simon et al. Science, 3 June 2011, 1163-1166.
- Response to comments on ‘A bacterium that can grow using Arsenic instead of Phosphorus,’ with Felisa Wolfe-Simon et al. Science Online, 27 May 2011.
- ‘Cancer: The beat of an ancient drum?’, The Guardian, 25 April 2011.
- ‘Aurora- the first martian- a vision of colonial life on the red planet’ with Dirk Schulze-Makuch and Joseph Gabriel, in The one way mission to Mars: colonizing the red planet, 2011, Cosmology Science Publishers, 365-380.
- ‘To boldly go: A one-way human mission to Mars’, co-authored with Dirk Schulze-Makuch, Journal of Cosmology, November 2010.
- ‘The ‘Give me a job’ microbe’ The Wall Street Journal, 4 December, 2010.
- Interview with Paul Davies in ‘Talking about life: conversations on Astrobiology’, ed. Impey, C., 2010, Cambridge University Press.
- ‘Interview with Paul Davies in Atoms & Eden: conversations on Religion & Science', by Steve Paulson, 2010.
- ‘Why so quite, E.T.?,’ The Free Lance-Star, 26 September, 2010.
- ‘We are not alone’ from an interview, The West Australian, September 14, 2010 by Drew Turney
- ‘Stephen Hawking’s big bang gaps,’ The Guardian Online, 4 September 2010.
- ‘How to Make First Contact,’ SciFi Science, Episode 6, ITV Studios, September 2010
- ‘Clash of civilizations,’ Big Questions Online- John Templeton Foundation, 26 July 2010.
- ‘Searching for a Shadow Biosphere on Earth as a Test of the Cosmic Imperative,’ Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society 368, 1930.
- "Pour la Science," July 20, 2010.
- 'Paul Davies: Searching for alien life,' interview with Jonathan Charles, BBC HARDtalk, 14 July, 2010.
- 'The destiny of the universe,' FQXi Community Online, 2 July, 2010.
- ‘Rethinking cancer,’ Physics World, June 2010.
- ‘The eerie silence: are we alone in the universe?’ Engineering and Technology, 8 May 2010, p. 76.
- ‘The aliens among us,’ New York Times, 13 May, 2010.
- ‘Alien invasion: why Stephen Hawking is wrong’ Speakeasy: Wall Street Journal Online, April 27, 2010.
- ‘Is anybody out there?’ Wall Street Journal, April 10, 2010.
- ‘Is anyone out there?’ New Humanist (UK), March-April 2010.
- ‘The Guardian’s Science weekly podcast,’ interviewed by Andy Duckworth, 15 March, 2010.
- ‘First contact: the man who will welcome the aliens,’ interview with Jon Ronson, The Guardian, 6 March 2010.
- Naturläkemedel inte alltid naturliga,” in Forskning & Framsteg (Sweden) (March 2009), p. 10
- ‘L’information s’en sort indemne,’ in La Recherche No. 427 (February 2009), p. 31
- ‘What is the origin of life?’ Focus No. 198 January 2009, p. 27
- Interview with Polityka Niezbednik Inteligenta (Poland) No 42, 2008, p.19
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‘Living in the dark,’ Enlightenment Magazine No. 40, May-June 2008, p. 82
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Review of
The Black Hole War by Leonard Susskind, Nature
454, 579 (2008)
- Interview with Ciel & Espace, No. 457, June 2008, p. 38
- ‘On my mind.’ SEED Magazine. June 2008
- ‘The brain behind the economy’. The Australian. 9 May 2008
- Interview in Cosmos 20, April/May 2008, p. 78
- “A one-way human mission to Mars,” Astrobiology, April 2008, p. 310
- ‘Des formes de vie alternatives,’ Pour la Science March 2008
- ‘One-way ticket to the Red Planet,’ Cosmos 18, December 2007
- ‘The laws of physics’. The Times of India. 18 February 2008‘One-way ticket to the Red Planet,’
Cosmos 18, December 2007
- ‘Cosmic playground,’ interview with Diane Boudreau,
Research Magazine, Arizona state University Fall/Winter 2007
- ‘Taking science on faith,’ Times of India, 21 December 2007
- ‘Aliens under our noses,’
Scientific American, 12 December 2007
- Response to critics,
Edge, 7 December 2007
- ‘Taking science on faith,’
New York Times, 24 November 2007
- ‘A fine tuned universe and other mysteries,’ in Star-Telegram.com, 13 November 2007
- ‘Aliens wonen al op aarde,’ NWT: Natuur Wetenschap & Techniek, October 2007, p. 34
- ‘Does the universe have a purpose? Perhaps,’ New Scientist 20 Oct 2007
- ‘Abbiamo avuto una fortuna cosmica,’ Panorama 18 October 2007 (Italy)
- ‘Does the universe have a purpose? Perhaps,’ New York Times 6 Oct 2007
- 'How the universe got its laws',
New Scientist, 30 June 2007
- 'Yes, the universe looks like a fix. But that doesn't mean that a god fixed it,"
The Guardian, 26 June 2007
- 'Quantum leap of faith,' The Australian, 30 May 2007
- 'Life, the universe and everything', Cosmos 14, 46 (2007)
- 'Reloading the matrix', Science & Spirit, March/April 2007, p. 58
- 'The universe's weird bio-friendliness', The Chronicle Review, April 6, 2007, p. 14
- Deconstructing the cosmic jackpot, New York Academy of Sciences Magazine, March/April 2007, p. 10
- Web interview
Do we live in a multiverse? December 2006
- Interview with Ian Taylor, Focus Magazine, December 2006, p. 40
- And another thing, Sunday Life (Australia), 10 December 2006
- Things I've learned, interview by Lilly Bragge, The Age, 2 December 2006
- The books that changed me, Sun Herald (Australia), 12 November 2006
- The bear necessities of life, Times Higher Education Supplement, 13 October 2006
- Goldilocks and the riddle of the perfect universe, interview with Stuart Wavel, The Sunday Times, 8 October 2006.
- 42? No, there's more to it, Oxford Times, 28 September 2006
- Looking for the biggest answers, The Daily Telegraph, 21 September 2006
- Review of
The Singularity is Near by Ray Kurzweil, Nature 440, 421 (2006)
- Review of The Labyrinth of Time by Michael Lockwood, Times Higher Education Supplement (in the press)
- Review of Introduction to Black Holes, Information & String Theory by Leonard Susskind and James Lindesay in
Australian Physicist (in the press)
- Review of Nuclear Energy Fallacies by Colin Keay in Australian Physics (in the press)
- 'Quantum mechanics and complexity,' Physics World (in the press)
- Interview in Belief (ed. Joan Bakewell: Duckworth Publishers, UK, 2006)
- "Contemplating the cosmos," Science & Theology News, April 2006
- "In search of a second genesis", New Scientist, 11 February 2006, p. 48
- "Viajes en el tiempo", Espacio, February 2006, p. 35
- Interview "E.T. contact would transform society", Ohmy News, 17 January
2006,
http://english.ohmynews.com/
- "That mysterious flow", Scientific American special edition, January 2006, p. 82
- Review of Information and its Role in Nature by J.G. Roederer (Springer 2005) in
Australian Physics42, 170 (2006)
- "A quantum leap of faith", The Guardian 20 December 2005
- 'Searching for the fourth law,' New Scientist 29 October 2005, p. 51
- "Living with aliens", The Guardian, 8 September 2005
- Interview by Helen Joyce in Plus Magazine , web publication,
http://plus.maths.org/, July 2005.
- Review of
Warped Passages by Lisa Randall in Nature, Vol 435,
30 June 2005, p.1161
- Review of Looking for Life, Searching the Solar System by P. Clancy, A. Brack and G. Horneck,
New Scientist , 25 June 2005, p. 50
- 'What I am reading,' BBC Sky at Night Magazine, June issue
- Interview in Science & Spirit, May/June 2005, p. 60.
- 'Goodbye Mars, hello Earth,' New York Times, 10 April 2005
- "E = mc 2 centenary survey," web publication,
http://www.spiked-online.com/sections/science/sciencesurvey/ April 2005
- 'Seeking inspiration in science,' Times Higher Education Supplement, 11 March 2005.
- Review of Empire of the Stars by Arthur Miller,
Literary Review (UK), March 2005
- 'Seeking inspiration in science,' Times Higher Education Supplement, 11 March 2005
- Review of Empire of the Mind by Arthur Miller, Literary Review
(UK, 2005).
- 'The sum of the parts,' New Scientist, 5 March 2005, p. 34
- 'Chance or creation? Only the multiverse knows for sure,' Science & Theology News, January 2005, p. 35
- 'Meeting of the minds,' Science & Spirit, Jan/Feb 2005, p. 34
- 'Die botschaft der au b erirdischen in uns,' in Telepolis Magazine
(Germany), January 2005, p. 115.
- 'Huygens offers scientists a chance to look for life beneath Titan's haze,'
Sydney Morning Herald, 28 December 2004.
- 'The ascent of life,' New Scientist, 11 December, 2004, p. 30.
- Review of How to Clone the Perfect Blonde, by Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham
Nature 432, 9 Dec 2004, p. 675.
- 'Understand nature's mystery number,' in 100 Things to Do Before You Die
(Profile Books, London), p. 33.
- 'Sind ausserirdische unterirdische?' Astronomie Heute (Sky & Telescope, Germany) 11 November 2004, p. 22.
- 'La vita non è materia: è informazione,' L'Eco di Bergamo, Culture supplement (Italy), 10 October 2004.
- 'When time began,' New Scientist Supplement, 9 October 2004, p. 4.
- 'Undermining free will,' Foreign Policy Magazine, Sept/Oct 2004, p. 36.
- Review of The Road to Reality by Roger Penrose, Focus Magazine
(UK), September 2004, p. 84.
- 'In defence of the ghost in the machine,' Australian Financial Review, 3 September 2004.
- 'Message for the curious: please phone ET, at home,' Sydney Morning Herald, 10 August 2004
- 'Do we have to spell it out?' New Scientist, 7 August 2004, p. 30.
- 'Minds over matter: 40 Years of Knowledge,' The Australian, 40 Years special supplement, 31 July 2004
- 'Be warned, this could be the matrix,' The Sydney Morning Herald, 22 July 2004
- 'Human nature to make or break,' The Sunday Times (Australia), 27 June 2004
- 'Tax slug floors creative entrepreneurs,' The Australian, 10 May 2004
- 'Einstein the first spin doctor,' The Guardian, 10 April 2004
- 'Review of The Fabric of the Cosmos,' by Brian Greene, Nature
428, 18 March 2004, p. 257
- '2500 years on, the big question remains: how long is a piece of string theory?'
Sydney Morning Herald, 25 February 2004
- 'Life (and death) on Mars,'
New York Times, 15 January 2004
- 'Dark forces of the cosmos,' The Bulletin (Australia), December 10, 2003, p. 58
- 'Time and notion,' The Bulletin (Australia), November 5, 2003
- 'Reality in the melting pot,'
The Guardian (UK) September 23, 2003
- 'ET & God,' Atlantic Monthly, September 2003, p. 112.
- 'Un puzzle cosmologico,' KOS (Italy), 215/6 (August-September 2003), p. 26.
- 'Out of this world,' in How the Earth Works, The Daily Telegraph
supplement (Australia), 18 March 2003
- 'Mars attracts,' The Bulletin (Australia), 6 August 2003
- 'The other side of infinity,' The Australian, 15 July 2003
- 'Born lucky,' New Scientist, 12 July 2003
- 'A brief history of the multiverse,'
New York Times, 12 April 2003
- 'Was Einstein wrong?' Prospect Magazine (UK), April 2003
- Review of Faster than the speed of light, by Joao Magueijo,
Prospect Magazine, April 2003
- 'Time: exploring the fourth dimension,' Focus Magazine (UK) No. 124, March 2003
- 'Universal truths,'
The Guardian (UK) 23 January 2003
- 'Is anyone out there?
' The Guardian (UK) 22 January 2003
- 'Is this how life on Earth began?' The Daily Telegraph (UK) 21 January 2003
- 'Cradle of life,' The Bulletin (Australia), 14 January, 2003, p. 29
- 'The best of times, the worst of times,'
Sydney Morning Herald 1 January 2003
- 'Now is the reason for our discontent,'
The Age, 1 January 2003
- 'How we could create life,'
The Guardian (UK) December 11, 2002
- 'The cradle of life,' The Bulletin (Australia), December 11, 2002
- 'It's true, men really are from Mars,'
The Guardian (UK) October 30, 2002
- 'Camping in the cradle of life,' The Bulletin, October, 2002
- 'Seven wonders,' New Scientist, September 21, 2002
- 'Life may not add up, but it computes,'
The Guardian (UK) August 01, 2002
- 'Not so fast Einstein, light's got the brakes on,' Sydney Morning Herald, 8 August 2002
- 'Consciousness: Paul Davies talks to Stephen Jones at Tucson II,'
www.culture.com.au/brain_proj, 19 June 2002
- 'End of the universe,' The Bulletin (Australia), 12 June 2002
- 'Can time run backwards?' The Bulletin, March 2002
- 'Looking out for the mother of all comets,'
Sydney Morning Herald,10 January 2002
- 'Time travel,' The Age, 24 November 2001
- 'Liquid space,' New Scientist, 3 November 2001
- 'Stuck at the last temporal turnstile, The Times Higher Education Supplement, 2 November 2001
- 'Buying time,'
The Guardian (UK), 18 October 2001
- 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.
- 'Life among the stars,' The Advertiser (Australia), 4 August 2001
- 'Journey from the centre of the earth,' The Bulletin, 29 May 2001
- 'Journey from the centre of the Earth,' The Bulletin, 23 May 2001
- 'ET phone in ... please,'
Sydney Morning Herald, 28 April 2001
- 'Life in the underworld,' The Bulletin April 2001
- 'Armageddon times,' The Bulletin, 27 March 2001
- 'The great red hope,'
Sydney Morning Herald, 24 February 2001
- 'A spasso nel tempo,' Internazionale 370,
26 January 2001, p.40
- 'Taking the time to travel,' The Advertiser, 9 December 2000
- 'Know the future,' The Bulletin, 21 November 2000
- 'Time loops,' The Third Culture,
Edge interview, 31 October, 2000.
- 'Many questions, some answers,' (with Steven Weinberg), discussion transcribed by
Timothy Ferris,
Forbes Magazin e, USA, 2 October 2000
- 'Is that qualia in your circuits?
' Sydney Morning Herald, 16 September 2000
- 'Weblife: on the move,'
The Guardian, 31 August 2000
- 'Life among the stars,' The Advertiser, August 2001
- Contribution to the Space Series Lift-Out, The Advertiser, January 2001
- 'Time travel,' The Advertiser, 9 December 2000
- 'Bang goes Einstein's speed of light theory,'
S ydney Morning Herald, 21 July 2000
- 'Consciousness' The Advertiser, 20 July 2000
- 'Light goes backwards in time,'
The Guardian, 20 July 2000
- 'Quantum computing: a key to unlocking the ultimate reality?' Science and Spirit, May/June 2000
- 'The truth is out there - or is it?' The Bulletin, May 2000
- 'Are we still alone?' The Advertiser, Weekend Magazine, 6 May 2000
- 'Flattening the universal idea,' The Advertiser, 29 April 2000
- 'Time and notion,' The Bulletin, 21 March 2000, p.19
- Article in The Sunday Age (Australia), 19 March 2000.
- 'How to get to Mars (and back),' The Advertiser, 11 March 2000
- 'Time...the final frontier,' The Times Higher Education Supplement
(UK), 10 March 2000
- 'Time travel,' The Bulletin, March 2000
- 'Martian life on earth: the test,' The Advertiser, 15 January 2000
- 'The gospel according to science,' The Times Higher Education Supplement, 28 January 2000
- 'It's a bug's life,'
The Guardian, 13 January 2000
- 'The quest for the dream machine,' The Bulletin, 11 January 2000
- 'Looking for life in the vast lane,' The Sunday Age, 2 January 2000
- 'Unsolved problems of cosmology,' The Weekend Australian, 18-19 December 1999
- 'Search for life beyond Earth,' The Weekend Australian, 18-19 December 1999
- 'Why we still believe in aliens, regardless of the facts, ' The Age, 6 November 1999
- 'A brief history of aliens,' Good Weekend Magazine (Australia), October 1999
- 'At the crossroads,' Forbes Magazine, 4 October 1999, p. 231
- 'Is there life out there?' The Wall Street Journal, 24 September 1999
- 'Life force,' New Scientist, 18 September 1999, p. 27
- 'When it comes to the crunch,' Good Weekend Magazine, 18 September 1999
- 'If you're out there, ET, log on,' Search Lites, Spring 1999
- 'Life. But not as we know it,' The Bulletin, 10 August 1999
- 'We're all Martians,' Ottawa Citizen, 7 August 1999
- 'Cosmic calamity,' The Times Higher Education Supplement, 23 July 1999
- 'Cosmic dreams,' The Australian, 21 July 1999
- 'The end of the world' The Sydney Morning Herald, Millennium Project, June 1999
- 'Masters of the universe,' The Guardian, 8 April 1999
- 'Small is beautiful as nanobes reveal we are not alone,' The Guardian, 20 March 1999
- 'Bit before it?' New Scientist, 30 January 1999, p. 3
- 'La mente de Dios,' Boletín de Información, Fundación BBV, 1999 edition, p. 3
- 'Microbes won't survive interstellar travel,' SearchLites, Spring 1999
- 'Star warps,' Forbes ASAP, 30 November 1998
- 'Reach for the sky,' The Advertiser, 24 October 1998
- 'Ants in the machine,' Sydney Morning Herald, 17 October 1998
- 'Chaos theory and economics, The Age, 17 October 1998
- 'Survivors from Mars,' New Scientist, 12 September 1998, p. 24
- 'Facing the quest for the ultimate antique final frontier,' The Advertiser, 12 September 1998
- 'To Earth, with love,' University of Adelaide Student Newspaper, 24 August 1998
- 'Aliens,' The Sydney Morning Herald, 22 August 1998
- Melbourne Writers' Festival keynote address reprinted, The Age, 22 August 1998
- 'Why the human race might not exist if evolution returned to square one,'
The Times Higher Education Supplement, 7 August 1998
- 'The mating gene,' The Dominion (New Zealand), August 1998
- 'Where did life begin?' The Age Magazine, Good Weekend Magazine, 1 August 1998, p.14
- 'In the beginning, there was...?' The Advertiser, 1 August 1998
- 'When science and theology collide,' The Age, 18 July 1998
- 'The mating gene,' The Age, 2 July 1998
- 'Rich pickings,' The Sydney Morning Herald, 25 April 1998
- 'Paradox lost,' New Scientist, 21 March 1998, p. 27
- 'Moon of mystery,' The Age, 14 March 1998
- 'When worlds collide,' The Sydney Morning Herald, 13 March 1998
- 'Scientific thirst. Ice on the moon,' Sydney Morning Herald, 7 March 1998
- 'Richard Feynman, spirit of the new physics,' Obituary in The Guardian, February 1998.
- 'The next step,' The West Australian, 1 November 1997
- 'Time's arrow,' New Scientist, 1 November 1997
- 'Strange times,' New Scientist, 1 November 1997
- 'How we'll conquer,' Sydney Morning Herald, 18 October 1997
- 'The Martian,' The Age, 12 July 1997
- 'Seeing red,' Sydney Morning Herald,' 12 July 1997
- 'Could life on Earth have started on the red planet?' The Sunday Age, 6 July 1997
- 'Are we alone? UFOs, alien abductions events - until we wake up.'
Sydney Morning Herald, 7 June 1997
- 'Martians attack!' The Age, 14 June 1997
- 'Mars,' PM Magazine, December 1996
- 'The future of God,' The Sydney Morning Herald, 21 December 1996
- 'Next stop Mars,' The Weekend Review, 2-3 November 1996
- 'Where are all the extraterrestrials?' New Scientist, 5 October 1996
- 'Complexity,' The Statesman Festival, 1996, p.115
- 'Shaking light from the void,' Nature, 29 August 1996, p.761
- 'Belief in tranquility,' The Weekend Review, 17 - 18 August 1996
- 'Are we home alone?' The Sunday Age, 11 August 1996
- 'We are probably not alone,' The Sydney Morning Herald, 10 August1996
- 'Why we may once have been Martians,' The Sydney Morning Herald, 8 August 1996
- 'Are we really all Martians?' The Advertiser, 8 August 1996
- ' Mars: The missing link ?' The Age, 8 August 1996
- 'Cause, effect and cosmic lottery,' The Australian, 12 June 1996
- 'Where did the Big Bang come from?' World Press Review, May 1996
- 'Return to consciousness,' The Australian, 22 May 1996
- 'The day time began,' New Scientist, 27 April 1996, p. 30
- 'The improbable cosmic lottery,' The Australian, 2 April 1996
- 'Review of Extraterrestrial Intelligence,' by Jean Heidmann,
The Times Higher, 22 March 1996
- 'No life on Mars may be a thing of the past,' The Australian, 13 March 1996
- 'Is the universe a free lunch?' Independent on Sunday, 3 March 1996
- 'Que es el infinito?' Conocer, February 1996, p.64
- 'The harmony of the spheres,' Time Magazine, 5 February 1996, p.58
- 'Is there life in outer space,' Time Magazine, 5 February 1996, p. 44
- 'Hawking won't toe particle line,' The Australian, 24 January 1996
- 'Proofs of God in a photon?' Independent on Sunday, 24 December 1995
- 'To sleep, perchance to dream,' The Australian, 15 November 1995
- 'A novel approach to temporal anomalies,' The Australian, 1 November 1995
- 'A brief history of time travel: some scenarios,' The Australian, 11 October 1995
- 'Are we alone?' The Advertiser Weekend Magazine, 7 October 1995
- 'Hatte Gott keine Wahl, al ser di Groben im Universum schuf?' PM Magazine, September 1995, p.16
- 'El mito de la materia,' Conocer, September 1995, p.68
- Review of The Emperor's New Mind by Roger Penrose, The Times Higher Education Supplement, 15 September 1995
- 'Military cover-up or elaborate hoax?' The Australian, 6 September 1995
- 'Aqui la Tierra. Digame?' Conocer, July 1995, p.6
- 'Antigravity returns in theoretical starring role,' The Australian, 19 July 1995
- 'Neural networking,' The Times Higher Education Supplement 26 May 1995
- 'Could life have been delivered by meteor?" The Australian, 24 May 1995
- 'The thought that counts,' New Scientist, 6 May 1995
- 'Getting to grips with God: science and the superbeing,' The Guardian, 4 May 1995
- 'How science robs us of time's mystery,' The Daily Telegraph (UK), 3 May 1995
- 'Before the big bang,' The Australian Higher Education Supplemen
t, 9 March 1994
- 'Are we alone?' Focus Magazine, March 1995, p. 40
- 'The big crunch, Science Spectra, January 1995, p.8
- 'Twists in time,' 21'C, January 1995, p.20
- 'Is anybody out there? ET, phone Earth now!' The Australian, 18 January 1995
- 'On the meaning of Mach's principle,' File 940922Mach from the Go2 archive of
The Guardian OnLine © Guardian Newspapers Ltd
- 'Le leggi del caso,' Sfera, November/December 1994, p.40
- 'It's such a difficult age!' The Guardian, 10 November 1994
- 'How the world will end,' The Advertiser, 5 November 1994
- 'Ich hab's! Ich hab's!' PM Magazine, November 1994
- 'Un cometa gigante amenaza a la tierra,' Conocer, November 1994, p.6
- 'Die Marionette tanzt, doch Faden sind,' PM Magazine, September 1994
- 'Adventures of discovery,' Times Educational Supplement, 16 September 1994
- 'Birth of the clever city,' The Guardian, 15 September 1994
- 'Free will: it's all so predictable,' The Australian, 17 August 1994
- 'The birth of the universe,' 21'C, Autumn 1994, p.96
- 'God is a pure mathematician,' Miscellany, 26 June 1994
- 'The nature of consciousness,' Miscellany, 19 June 1994
- 'Life and consciousness,' Miscellany, 12 June 1994
- 'Mysteries of the mind,' Miscellany, 5 June 1994
- 'The mystery of consciousness,' Miscellany, 29 May 1994
- 'Close encounters, ' The Weekend Australian, 28 - 29 May 1994
- 'Search shifts below ground for rocky beginnings of life,' The Australian, 11 May 1994
- 'Ubiquitous spanner in the works,' The Australian, 13 April 1994
- 'Life before time began,' The Australian, 9 March 1994
- 'Como funciona la mente de Dios,' Conocer, February 1994, p.64
- 'Urkraft elektrizitat: Was steckt dahinter?' PM Magazine, January 1994
- 'New light on black holes,' (paper? ) January 1994, p.84
- 'Can you beat the clock?' Physics World, December 1993, p.7
- 'Leichter als nichts - das soll es ... geben?' PM Magazine, December 1993
- 'From chaos to natural organization,' The Australian, 22 September 1993
- 'About time,' The National Trust Magazine, Spring 1993
- 'The future for traveling in time,' Focus, November 1993, p.50
- 'Time bends,' The Guardian, 12 August 1993
- Review of Cranks, Quarks and the Cosmos: Writings of Science, by Jeremy Bernstein,
Natural History, July 1993, p.68
- 'Nuevas teorias sobre el origen de la vida,' Conocer, July 1993, p.4
- 'Distant thunder of dying stars,' The Guardian, 15 July 1993
- 'The ultimate vanishing act,' Discover Magazine, October 1993
- Review of Dreams of a Final Theory by Steven Weinberg, 21C, Winter 1993, p.83
- 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
- 'Die gespenstischen boten, die unser,' PM Magazine, March 1993
- 'Asi sera el final del universo,' Conocer, March 1993, p.20
- 'Die schreckl. leere im inneren der materiek,' PM Magazine, February 1993
- 'La dimensione dell universo,' Sfera, February 1993, p.80
- 'The mind of God,' Resurgence, September/October 1992, p.36
- 'In tune with universe but lost for words,' The Advertiser, 17 August 1992
- 'Are we alone?' The Weekend Australian, 1,2 August 1992
- 'In der tachyoneenwelt trifft ein pfeil schon.. 'PM Magazine, August1992, p.18
- 'Fact or fiction,' The Sunday Age, 12 July 1992
- 'The first one second of the universe,' Mercury, May/June 1992
- 'Has man mastered the universe?' The Weekend Australian, 2/3 May 1992
- 'Woher kommt die energie?' PM Magazine, June 1992, p.12
- 'The matter myth,' Island, Autumn 1992, p.28
- 'Science, God and the laws of the universe,' 24 hours, August 1992
- 'Ripples but no waves,' The Guardian, 1 July 1992
- 'Has man mastered the universe?' The Weekend Australian City Edition,2/3 May 1992
- 'Cracking the code of cosmic maths,' The Weekend Review, 28-29 March 1992
- 'Is nature mathematical?' New Scientist, 21 March 1992
- 'Message of the cosmic cryptogram,' The Guardian, 13 March 1992
- 'How did humans get so smart?' Daily Telegraph, 2 March 1992
- 'The mind of God,' OMNI, February 1992, p.4
- 'Project Columbus embarks on an extra-terrestrial voyage,' The News, 26 February 1992
- 'Die gesetze, denen das all gehorcht Gott?' PM Magazine, January 1992
- 'Wormholes and time machines,' Sky and Telescope, January 1992, p.20
- 'Self-organising the rhythm of life,' The News, 8 January 1992
- 'Time's arrow may turn,' The News, 18 December 1991
- 'Warming to sunspot theory,' The News, 11 December 1991
- 'Bicentenary for father of modern computer,' The News, 4 December 1991
- 'Casting a spying eye over the heavens,' The News, 18 November 1991
- 'New wave research opens up the universe,' The News, 16 November 1991
- 'End of the machine age,' The Daily Telegraph (UK), 30 September 1991
- 'God and science, 21C, Autumn 1991
- Review of The Big Bang Never Happened < by Eric Lerner,
The New York Times, 28 July 1991
- 'Gebt mir elnen superstarken sender, und,' PM Magazine, February 1991
- 'Mystery of rays, quarks and globs,' The News, 7 October 1991
- 'Waves of paradox,' The Weekend Australian, 20 - 21 October 1990
- 'Chaos frees the universe,' New Scientist, 6 October 1990
- 'Big Bang theory may be big blooper,' The News, 30 September 1990
- 'Great balls of lightning,' The Advertiser, 28 September 1990
- 'The clever country must mobilize its natural creativity,' The Sunday Age, 23 September 1990
- 'Solving the mysterious corn hoax,' The News, 23 September 1991
- 'Science struggles with timely challenge,' The News, 16 September 1991
- 'Thinking' computer on line,' The News, 16 September 1991
- 'Chaos,' 24 Hours (Australia), November 1990, p. 40
- 'Chaos frees the universe,' New Scientist, 6 October 1990, p. 36
- 'Wimps' may decide the fate of the universe,' The Advertiser, 23 August 1990
- 'Time travel, the fact in the science fiction,' The Weekend Australian, 21-22 July 1990
- 'Baby universes and cosmic Darwinism,' The Independent (UK), 11 June 1990
- 'Galactic vacuum cleaners in space,' Sunday Correspondent, 8 April 1990
- 'Matter-antimatter,' Sky and Telescope, March 1990, p.257
- 'Geist im atom,' PM Magazine, February 1990, p.14
- 'Science is falling into a black hole,' The Independent on Sunday, 11 February 1990
- 'Space, time and the superbeing,' The Times Higher Education Supplement, 5 January 1990
- 'Minds over molecular matter,' The Sunday Times, 12 November 1989
- 'Es gibt doch ein schlupfloch im all,' PM Magazine, October 1989
- Review of A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking,
Contemporary Physics 30, 135 (1989)
- 'The heavy emptiness of space,' The Independent, 24 July 1989
- 'Let them eat crumbs...' The Guardian, 9 May 1989
- 'Brain drain putting science in crisis, claims professor,' The Daily Telegraph, 28 March 1989
- 'Eine welle kommt selten allein, uuber es ist,' PM Magazine, March 1989
- 'Ist alles wahr, was Wissenschaftler sagen?' PM Magazine, February 1989
- Review of A Physicist's Guide to Skepticism by Milton A. Rothman,
Nature 336, 10 November 1988, p. 121
- 'Law and order in the universe,' New Scientist, 15 October 1988, p. 58.
- 'Der schlauch ist dunner als ein haar-und,' PM Magazine, May 1988
- 'Das ringen des verstandes mit der,' PM Magazine, February 1988
- 'Great balls of fire,' New Scientist 24/31 December 1987, p. 64
- 'Jetzt - und schon ist est vorbei!' PM Magazine, December 1987
- 'Das grobe ratsel gegenwart. Jetzt - und,' PM Magazine, December 1987
- 'The creative cosmos,' New Scientist, 17 December 1987, p. 41
- 'Die unsichtbaren netze, in denen wir alle...' PM Magazine, November 1987
- 'World without end after all,' The Guardian, 23 October 1987
- 'Was die welt zusammenhalt,' Die Zeit nr 42, 9 October 1987
- 'Forscher experimentieren mit antimaterie,' PM Magazine, June 1987
- 'Der mensch ist ein mensch. Und eine,' PM Magazine, March 1987
- 'Kann der mensch die zeit denn nie'zu, PM Magazine, August 1986
- 'Die zeit: jeder weisse, was das ist - bis er..,' PM Magazine, July 1986
- 'Kann die wissenschaft die groben,' PM Magazine, June 1986
- 'Ist der glaube an Gott noch wiss. Haltbar? PM Magazine, April 1986
- 'Was bleibt vom weltall ubrig, wenn man,' PM Magazine, February 1986
- Review of The Loitering Universe and Other Stories by Jeremy Gibbon,
New Scientist, 19/26 December 1985, p. 71
- 'New physics and the new big bang,' Sky and Telescope, November 1985, p. 406
- 'Schwarze locher,' PM Magazine, September 1985, p.44
- 'What's wrong with becoming a female physicist?' Guardian, 27 September 1984
- 'New physics and the new big bang,' Sky and Telescope, August 1985
- 'Do particles really exist?' New Scientist, 2 May 1985, p. 40
- 'Paul Dirac: a quantum pioneer,' New Scientist, 8 November 1984, p. 42
- Review of The Hidden Universe by Michael Disney, New Scientist, 1 November 1984, p. 49
- 'The best of all possible worlds?' New Scientist, 23 August 1984, p. 29
- 'Die moglichkeit, dab es welten gibt, die wir,' PM Magazine, July 1984
- Review of In Search of Reality by Bernard d'Espagnat, New Scientist, 17 May 1984, p. 49
- 'The eleven dimensions of reality,' New Scientist, 9 February 1984, p. 31
- 'The eleventh dimension,' Science Digest (USA), January 1984, p.72
- 'The anthropic principle,' Science Digest 191, October 1983, p.24
- 'God and the new physics,' Science Digest (USA), September 1983
- 'Quarks, quasars and the meaning of life,' Telegraph Sunday Magazine
(London), 7 August 1983
- 'God and the new physics,' New Scientist, 23 June 1983, p. 872
- Review of The Way the World Is by John Polkinghorne, New Scientist, 2 June 1983, p. 638
- 'The origin of life: Earth's lucky break,' Science Digest, May 1983, p.36
- 'The inflationary universe,' The Sciences (USA), 23, March/April 1983, p. 32
- 'How the pioneers of the new physics have thrown more light on God,'
The Guardian, 31 March 1983
- 'Speculations,' Science Digest (USA), March 1983
- 'Albert Einstein is a real human being,' New Scientist, 17 February 1983
- Review of Infinity and the Mind by Rudy Rucker, Nature
301, 13 January 1983, p. 181
- Review of Plurality of Worlds by Steven Dick, New Scientist, 7 October 1982, p. 37
- Review of Superspace and Supergravity by S.W. Hawking and M. Rocek (eds.),
The Sciences 22, May/June 1982, p. 24
- 'Something for nothing,' New Scientist, 27 May 1982, p. 580
- Review of The Science of Spacetime by Derek Raine and Michael Heller,
Nature 297, 27 May 1982, p. 345
- 'Creative impulse,' The Guardian, 20 May 1982
- Review of Cosmology, Physics and Philosophy by Benjamin Gal-Or,
New Scientist, 13 May 1982, p. 439
- 'Bounded brainpower,' Nature 296, 18 March 1982, p. 201
- 'Missing matter,' The Sciences (USA), 22 January 1982, p. 15
- 'On being lowered into a black hole,' New Scientist, 14 January 1982, p. 76
- 'A naked truth at the edge of time,' The Guardian, 10 December 1981
- 'What is time?' The Sciences (USA) 19, November 1979, p. 18
- 'The search for the superforce,' The Guardian, 8 October 1981
- 'The ultimate computer,' Nature 292, 9 July 1981, p. 112
- Review of Ball Lightning and Bead Lightning by James Dale Barry,
New Scientist, 4 June 1981, p. 629
- 'Grand bang,' Nature 291, 28 May 1981, p. 280
- Review of Some Strangeness in the Proportion by H. Woolf (ed.),
Nature 291, 28 May 1981, p. 362
- 'Protons: Earth's built-in obsolescence,' The Guardian, 21 May 1981
- Review of Gravity, Black Holes and the Universe by I. Nicolson,
Nature 290, 23 April 1981, p. 656
- Review of Quantum Field Theory by C. Itzykson & J.-B. Zuber,
Nature 290, 5 March 1981, p. 74
- Review of Gravity, Particles & Astrophysics by Paul Wesson,
Nature 289, 22 January 1981, p. 332
- Review of Life Beyond Earth by Gerald Feinberg and Robert Shapiro and
Earth and Cosmos by R.S. Kandel, Nature
288, 6 November 1980, p. 34
- 'The search for gravity waves,' New Scientist, 30 October 1980, 288
- 'The subatomic anarchy show,' The Guardian, 1 May 1980
- 'The origin of the universe,' The Economist, 12 April 1980, p.67
- 'Antigravity,' Nature 283, 21 February 1980, p. 717
- 'Antimatter from space,' Nature 282, 8 November 1979, p.130
- Review of Gravitational Curvature by T. Frankel, New Scientist, 11 October 1979, p. xxi
- 'Universe in reverse: can time run backwards?' Second Look, September 1979, p.27
- 'Unifying the variety of nature,' New Scientist, 9 August 1979, p. 436; reprinted as 'Joining forces in electroweak theory,' in
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- 'Infinite problems of the very small,' New Scientist, 26 July 1979, p. 284
- Review of Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity 1894-1912
by Thomas Kuhn, New Scientist, 19 July 1979, p. 201
- 'Timing time,' Nature, 279, 24 May 1979, p.290
- 'Taking the sigh out of science,' New Scientist, 3 May 1979, p. 351
- Review of It's About Time (BBC1 TV programme) New Scientist, 19 April 1979, p. 203
- 'Trouble with time travel,' Nature, 277, 22 February 1979, p.602
- 'Gravitational radiation at last?' Nature, 277, 8 February 1979, p.430
- 'Primaeval magnetic monopoles,' Nature, 277, 18 January 1979, p.174
- 'Chance or choice: is the universe an accident?' New Scientist, 16 November 1978, p. 506
- 'Cosmic heresy?' Nature, 273, 1 June 1978, p.336
- 'Electric universe,' Nature, 273, 25 May 1978, p.268
- 'Supertechnology,' extract from The Runaway Universe, reprinted in
New Scientist, 23 March 1978
- 'Smoothing primaeval chaos,' Nature, 271, 9 February 1978, p.506
- 'Gödel and general relativity,' New Scientist, 26 January 1978, p. 239
- 'Primeaval heavy leptons,' Nature, 269, 13 October 1977, p560
- 'Experimenting with controlled gravity,' Nature, 268, 4 August 1977, p.397
- 'Thermodynamic light on black holes,' New Scientist, 28 July 1977, p. 238
- 'Some singular proposals,' Nature, 266, 3 March 1977, p.12
- 'New limits on variability of fundamental physical quantities,' Nature,
263, 16 September 1976, p.191
- 'Exploding black holes,' Nature, 261, 27 May 1976, p.280
- 'Ball lightning,' Nature, 260, 15 April 1976, p.573
- 'Is the universe running away with itself?' Nature, 257, 9 October 1975, p.444
- 'A new theory of the universe,' Nature, 255, 15 May 1975, p.191
- 'Opening up the universe,' Nature, 253, 20 February 1975, p.594
- 'Arrival of the age of Rama,' Nature, 252, 13 December 1974, p.525
- 'Gravitational waves from collapsing stars,' Nature, 251, 4 October 1974, p.378
- 'Can neutron starlight be seen?' Nature, 251, 13 September 1974, p.99
- 'Astrophysics and energy from black holes,' Nature, 251, 6 September 1974, p.12
- 'Dirac completes his theory of large numbers,' Nature, 250, 9 August 1974, p.460
- 'Limited progress at G7,' Nature, 250, 26 July 1974, p.287
- 'How special is the universe,' Nature, 249, 17 May 1974, p.208
- 'Ghost neutrinos emerge from the mathematics,' Nature 248, 5 April 1974, p.471
- 'Limited progress with quantum gravity,' Nature, 248, 22 March 1974, p.282
- 'Have tachyons been observed?' Nature, 248, 1 March 1974, p.9
- 'Search for the superheavies,' Nature, 246, 9 November 1973, p.65
Selection of opinion articles on social, educational and
political topics
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‘Tiny bones pose humanity’s big questions,’ Science & Theology
News (USA) December 2004
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‘The need to cater for the precocious before they pass their peak,’
Sydney Morning Herald, 21 December 2004.
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‘Invest in destiny,’ Teacher Magazine (Times Education
Supplement, London), October 3, 2003, p. 2.
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‘Horses for (university) courses,’ The Times Higher Education
Supplement (UK), 20 June 2003.
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‘Global is the only way to go,’ The Advertiser, 17 May 1999
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‘Millennium just an accident of evolution,’ The Advertiser,
10 May 1999
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‘Future not so shocking,’ The Advertiser, 3 May 1999
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‘Sadly, our splendor is a secret,’ The Advertiser, 26 April
1999
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‘National pride issue run up the flagpole,’ The Advertiser,
19 April 1999
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‘Kosovo is all the world’s concern,’ The Advertiser, 15 April
1999
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‘Go all the way with a private Telstra,’ The Advertiser, 12
April 1999
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‘The evil within us all,’ The Bulletin, 6 April 1999
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‘Kosovo is all the world’s concern,’ ‘Consciousness’ The
Advertiser, 5 April 1999
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‘Wait for it, the Hilton in the heavens,’ The Advertiser, 29
March 1999
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‘The case for a nuclear dump,’ The Advertiser, 27 March 1999
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‘A letter from Yehudi Menuhin,’ The Advertiser, 22 March
1999
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‘Australia, a society that cares,’ The Advertiser, 15 March
1999
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‘Life gushes the press: the reality is different,’ The Advertiser,
8 March 1999
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‘Minority rule is not democracy,’ The Advertiser, 1 March
1999
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‘A world forum but no SA,’ The Advertiser, 22 February 1999
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‘No matter if Bloggs was the Bard,’ The Advertiser, 15
February 1999
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‘Time to end sullied Olympics,’ The Advertiser, 8 February
1999
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‘No Noah, but maybe a deluge,’ The Advertiser, 1 February
1999
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‘The open road for me,’ The Advertiser, 25 January 1999
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‘Seeking the real Jesus,’ The Advertiser, 18 January 1999
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‘Blair’s euro challenge,’ The Advertiser, 11 January 1999
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‘Sputtering in the Year 2000,’ The Advertiser, 4 January 1999
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‘That tragic day at Lockerbie,’ The Advertiser, 28 December
1998
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‘Chilling menace of bio-war,’ The Advertiser, 21 December
1998
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‘Pinochet case sets a precedent,’ The Advertiser, 14 December
1998
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‘Telephone directory nightmare,’ The Advertiser, 7 December 1998
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‘Centenary salute to folk heroes,’ The Advertiser, 30
November 1998
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‘The answer is new cities in the north,’ The Advertiser, 23
November 1998
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‘The legal pedants of Adelaide,’ The Advertiser, 16 November
1998
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‘Star wars could wreak havoc,’ The Advertiser, 9 November
1998
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‘Laying bare ugly double standards,’ The Advertiser, 2
November 1998
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‘Vanity has its place in space,’ The Advertiser, 26 October
1998
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‘Reach for the sky,’ The Advertiser, 24 October
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‘Battling the Asian downturn,’ The Advertiser, 19 October
1998
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‘Not a bad election to lose,’ The Advertiser, 12 October 1998
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‘Picnic tricks to whop the wasp,’ The Advertiser, 5 October
1998
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‘Learn a trade, young man,’ The Advertiser, 28 September 1998
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‘Scrap the unfair migrant tax,’ The Advertiser, 21 September
1998
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‘If you’re out there, ET, log on,’ The Advertiser, 14
September 1998
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‘ Facing the final frontier,’ The Advertiser, 12 September
1998
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‘The folly of too many elections,’ The Advertiser, 7
September 1998
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‘When size doesn’t matter,’ The Advertiser, 31 August 1998
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‘Duped by flying saucery,’ The Advertiser, 24 August 1998
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‘The GST we had to have,’ The Advertiser, 17 August 1998
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‘Sadly, our TV doesn’t compare,’ The Advertiser, 10 August
1998
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‘The clever country? Not yet!’ The Advertiser, 3 August 1998
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‘In the beginning, there was…..?’ The Advertiser, 1 August
1998
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‘Sad creed of can’t be done,’ The Advertiser, 27 July 1998
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‘Technology and the new age of jobs,’ The Advertiser, 20 July
1998
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‘A glimpse of Eden in our State,’ The Advertiser, 13 July
1998
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‘Dumb drivers! That’s Adelaide,’ The Advertiser, 6 July 1998
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‘Asteroid: not if but when,’ The Advertiser, 29 June 1998
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‘Evolution of the soccer hooligan,’ The Advertiser, 22 June
1998
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‘Surcharge on super is super stupidity,’ The Advertiser, 15
June 1998
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‘Nuke-free world is a fantasy,’ The Advertiser, 8 June 1998
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‘Scandal of the punters who think they’ll win,’ The Advertiser,
1 June 1998
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‘Time to exploit the riches on our coast,’ The Advertiser, 25
May 1998
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‘What a pretty city: pity about the graffiti,’ The Advertiser,
18 May 1998
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‘It ain’t broke but it still needs fixing,’ The Advertiser,
11 May 1998
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‘Who needs visas? Not unfriendly Australia,’ The Advertiser,
4 May 1998
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‘A la carte, plus music from hell,’ The Advertiser, 27 April
1998
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‘Like it or not, cloning is coming,’ The Advertiser, 20 April
1998
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‘A return to Diana’s palace,’ The Advertiser, 13 April 1998
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‘Moving to Australia is a wealth hazard,’ The Advertiser, 6
April 1998
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‘Apocalypse soon?’ The Advertiser, 30 March 1998
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‘Come on in but sorry no job for you,’ The Advertiser, 23
March 1998
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‘Before the Big Bang!’ The Advertiser, 16 March 1998
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‘Let’s link death and taxes,’ The Advertiser, 9 March 1998
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‘The book as a commodity,’ The Advertiser, 2 March 1998
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‘Folly of the locked doors,’ The Advertiser, 23 February 1998
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‘What’s your poison?’ The Advertiser, 16 February 1998
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‘Wharfies’ last stand,’ The Advertiser, 9 February 1998
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‘Symbol – or supreme executive?’ The Advertiser, 2 February
1998
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‘Taxed by the burden of earning,’ The Advertiser, 26 January
1998
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‘Alien probe faces cash blackhole,’ The Advertiser, 19
January 1998
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‘Is it pollute or perish?’ The Advertiser, 12 January 1998
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‘Longing for chains under the hammer,’ The Weekly Telegraph
(international), 16 June 1997.
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‘The arts have lost it,’ The Australian, 19 – 20 October 1996
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‘The arts have lost it,’ The Sunday Times (UK), 18 August
1996
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‘MFP planners failed to grasp a crucial function,’ The Australian,
19 June 1996
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‘Foreign funds tax continues to fleece migrants,’ The Weekend
Australian, 15-16 June 1996
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‘Megacity madness a recipe for disaster,’ The Australian, 17
April 1996
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‘Time to tear down the universities?’ The Australian, 12
April 1996
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‘A fudge too far,’ The Times Higher Education Supplement 1
December 1995
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‘Don’t isolate higher ideals,’ The Australian, 19 April 1995
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‘Things are looking up down under: Opportunities beyond the
cultural cringe,’ New Scientist, 29 October 1994
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‘Science without maths just doesn’t add up,’ The Australian,
1 September 1993
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‘The truth about national curriculum,’ The Australian, 28
July 1993
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‘Let’s talk about sex,’ Physics World, September 1992
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‘Why I chose Australia,’ The Sun-Herald, 12 July 1992
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The MFP: Are we looking a gift horse in the mouth?’ New
Scientist, 14 December 1991, p. 4
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‘Fleeing the philistines,’ Eureka Street, July 1991, p.13
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