Sidney Perkowitz (@physp) profile picture

Recovering scientist now a happy science writer, blogger, speaker. Author, Hollywood Science, Digital People, Empire of Light, Universal Foam, Slow Light, more.

Atlanta, GA
Joined March 2011
Come see me and my co-editor Eddy Von Mueller speak about our new book celebrating the 200th birthday of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein." Wednesday, January 31 • 7PM at Barnes & Noble at Emory University 1390 Oxford Rd NE, Atlanta, GA 30307
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My Frankenstein book comes out 2/2/18 for the 200th b'day of Mary Shelley's story. Contributors include Mel Brooks ("Young Frankenstein").
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It jumps, it spins, it expands: popcorn kernel popping. It's all over in 0.1 second. tinyurl.com/l2rrs7u
NYT story tinyurl.com/k9fo2w8 about Trinity, site in NM of the first A-bomb. I visited it in 2002. Awe inspiring.
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Here's my new e-book Universal Foam 2.0: galaxies, beer, ocean foam, and the perfect souffle. tinyurl.com/ln96tmo
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Read "Illuminating Light," my history of light since the Big Bang, with great pix (NASA etc) interaliamag.org/
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Can anyone translate the cover for the Japanese edition of my book "Slow Light," just out? Thanks.
Interested in 21st century food? Here's page 1 of "Future Meat," my new piece for Evolve magazine. More to come.
Korean film.crew making a documentary from my best seller ever "Universal Foam," with ebook version slated.
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