The Parallax

The year is 2075 and I’m walking along the 20-mile stretch of California beach that connects Monterrey and Santa Cruz. I love spotting…

In the film Contact, Radio-astronomer Dr. Ellie Arroway receives a message from the Vega star system which is 26 light years away from…

In the 2009 film Hachi: A Dog’s Tale, a professor of music finds a lost puppy at the train station and takes him home for the night. The…

When I was a teenager living in Brooklyn of the 1950s, I did not know how to defend myself and was constantly afraid of violence from older…

As far back as I can remember, I loved the ocean. I grew up in Brooklyn and spent as much time as I could swimming in salt water. As I grew…

I’d been living by myself in an apartment in New Jersey for two years and getting increasingly lonely. My nightly dinners and weekends…

In 1957 I began studying physics during my freshman year at Columbia University. This inspired my best friend, the editor of the college…

Fifty years ago, I was an earth science teacher in the town of Larchmont, NY. At that time, the concept of recycling was relatively new…

I lived most of my adult life in Larchmont, a small waterfront community about 20 miles from New York City. The town is nestled against…