NEW Watch "A Universe from Nothing" on YouTube basis of book to appear Jan 2012

NEW New Book: Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science to appear March 2011

NEW New York Times Review of Quantum Man, April 2, 2011

Scientific American Profile and Interview (pdf)

Scientific American June 07 Dialogue with Richard Dawkins (pdf) (html) (extended web)

Scientific American March 2008 article (pdf)

Seed Salon Dec 07: Dialogue with Natalie Jeremijenko

Public Dialogue with Richard Dawkins at Stanford (video)

Cleveland Magazine March 07 Profile

Editorials and Commentary in National Newspapers, Magazines and the Web

• The Hunting of the Higgs: what is it and why does it matter? Richard Dawkins.net Dec 13, 2011. See also The Guardian, UK Dec 14, 2011, and New Scientist Dec 14, 2011.
• Voyager Heads for the Stars The Wall St. Journal, Dec 10, 2011
• Cern and colliding theories The Los Angeles Times, Oct 4, 2011
• A Quantum Life The Chronicle of Higher Education, Aug 24, 2011
• Dark Matter, Black Holes, and the First Stars The Wall St. Journal, Aug 1, 2011
• Blinded and Blindsided Richarddawkins.net, July 26, 2011
• Don't Mess with Mother Nature: On Marriage and Driving Licenses Richarddawkins.net, July 25, 2011
• Texas Gov. Perry's misguided day of prayer The Los Angeles Times, July 25, 2011
• The War on Science: US science cuts pay for war--and we all suffer The New Scientist, July 23, 2011 issue
• The Shuttle was a Dud But Space Is still our Destiny The Wall St. Journal, July 22, 2011
• The space shuttle programme has been a multi-billion-dollar failure The Guardian, July 21, 2011
• Rethinking the Dream Scientific American, April 2011, issue
• Guns-on-Campus bill having chilling effect The Arizona Republic, March 25, 2011
• Religion no excuse for promoting scientific ignorance New Scientist, Feb 8, 2011
• The Emperor's New Missile Defense Scientific American, Gues Blog, Jan 7, 2011
• No Sacred Mantle The New York Times, Room for Debate Jan 6, 2011
• The Lies of Science Writing The Wall St. Journal, Dec 4, 2011
• Forgotten Dreams? A Call to investigate the mysteries of humanity Scientific American, Guest blog Nov 18, 2010
• Our Spontaneous Universe The Wall St..Journal, Sept. 8, 2010
• Glenn Beck and the science of crowd counts The Los Angeles Times, Op-Ed, Sept 5, 2010
• The Gulf Spill and the Limits of Science The Wall St. Journal, June 11, 2010
• The Doomsday Clock keeps ticking The Los Angeles Times, Op-Ed, Jan 22, 2010
• A Dark Matter Breakthrough? The Wall St. Journal, Op Ed Dec 22, 2009
• A One-Way Ticket to Mars The New York Times, Op-Ed, Sept 1, 2009
• A Universe of Surprises ABC Australia, Commentary, Aug 19, 2009
• Voices: Recalling July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 Moon Landing The New York Times, July 14, 2009
• God and Science Don't Mix The Wall St. Journal, Commentary, June 26, 2009 (text html version)
• Why we still love Star Trek New Scientist Commentary, June 12, 2009
• Edwin Salpeter: A Life in Science The Guardian, February 4, 2009.
• A Timely Cabinet Appointment for Science The Huffington Post, Nov 14, 2008
• McCain's Science Earmark Error The Los Angeles Times, Oct 28, 2008
• Memo to the Next President (html version) Discover Magazine, November 2008 issue (pdf of magazine version)
• Candidates address world of technology The Arizona Republic, Sept. 21, 2008
• McCain Risks Becoming the Anti-Science Candidate The Huffington Post, Sept 2, 2008
• Faith vs. Fact The Huffington Post, Aug 27, 2008
• The Science Debates-A Guest Post The Presidential Debate Blog, Aug 10, 2008
• A Video Call for a Presidential Science Debate Cleveland Plain Dealer Online Video, Aug 10, 2008
• Celebrating Science as Culture Science Magazine, Aug 1, 2008 issue (vol 321, p. 643)
• Worth Every Penny The Guardian, June 30, 2008
• Science and the Candidates Science Magazine, April 11, 2008
• Science Debate 2008 -- Take Two The Huffington Post, April 10, 2008
• Where the Presidential Candidates Stand on Nuclear Issues The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists (online) Jan 9, 2008
• Make Science Part of the Debate Los Angeles Times (with C. Mooney) Dec 12, 2007 (also NY Newsday Dec 17,2007, San Jose Mercury, Dec 15, 2007..)
• Science and the Candidates The Wall St. Journal, Dec 6, 2007 ( pdf of newspaper page )
• Does the Universe Have a Purpose? Unlikely The Economist, Oct 2007, New York Times, Oct 9, 2007 (for pdf version go to pdf version )
• A case of dubious rationales The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, July/August 2007 issue
• Atheism a la Carte New Scientist Magazine, August 25, 2007
• Don't Vote for Ignorance New Scientist Magazine, July 28, 2007
• Museum of Misinformation New Scientist Magazine, May 26, 2007, (different related pieces also printed in Cincinnati Enquirer, May 19,2007, The Tennessean, May 21, 2007, Louisville Courier-Journal, May 22, 2007, Kentucky Post, May 26, 2007)
• More Dangerous Than Nonsense New Scientist Magazine, May 12, 2007
• New Data, real or not, should enrich the Christian conversation The Tennessean, Mar 6, 2007
• Testing Times New Scientist Magazine, Feb 17, 2007 issue
• Reason, Unfettered by Faith Chronicle of Higher Education, Jan 12, 2007
• Sermons and straw men Nature, Oct 26, 2006
• Beyond Evolution. Will state school board tackle the issues? The Akron Beacon Journal, Oct 13, 2006
• 'Values' Campaign Doesn't Value Some Things We Need The Tennessean, Oct 3, 2006
• The 10 Most Important Days in Astronomy Mental Floss Magazine, Sept 2006 issue
• Beware Government's Creeping Censorship of Scientific Inquiry The Jewish Daily Forward Sept 1, 2006
• How to Make Sure Children Are Scientifically Illiterate The New York Times, Science Times Essay Aug 15, 2006
• Voters must make education, not faith, the central issue The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Op-Ed, Aug 11, 2006
• Nice Going, Einstein Discover Magazine, Aug 2006 issue
• On The Side of the Angels New Scientist Magazine, Commentary, July 6, 2006
• How do you Fed-Ex the Pope? Interview at Edge.org June 22, 2006
• Changes in board are first step to turnaround at Case The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Op-Ed, June 9, 2006
• Discovery for the Sake of Discovery Cover Essay, Seed Magazine, June/July 2006 issue
• Science vs. Religion in the ID Debate Free Inquiry Magazine, April/May 2006 issue
• Case Trustees Must Talk to the Faculty, Use Its Expertise The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Op-Ed, 03/15/06
• State Board is Failing to Heed Judicious Call for Sound Science The Columbus Dispatch, Op-Ed, 01/30/06
• Imagining Hidden Worlds The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Op-Ed, 01/23/06
• Mind Your Scientific Language New Scientist Magazine, Commentary, 12/03/05
• Science and Religion Share Fascination in Things Unseen The New York Times, Science Times Essay 11/08/05
• The Pope and I (pdf version) The Skeptical Inquirer, Nov 2005 issue
• The Long Arm of Einstein Guides My Steering Wheel The New York Times, Science Times Essay 08/16/05
• Text of Open Letter to the Pope on Evolution 07/12/05, as referred to in NYT 07/13/05
• Survival of the Slickest New Scientist Magazine, Commentary, 07/09/05
• School Boards Want to 'Teach the Controversy.' What Controversy? The New York Times, Science Times Commentary 05/17/05
• When Sentiment and Fear Trump Reason and Reality The New York Times, Science Times Commentary 03/29/05
• Space Probe Makes Science Fiction Wonders of Childhood Real The New York Times, Science Times Essay 01/25/05
• Diablo Canyon is Ideal for Neutrino Study San Luis Obispo Tribune Viewpoint 09/02/04
• Politics Trumps Science Cleveland Plain Dealer Op-Ed 04/12/04
• Board Violates its Own Standard The Cincinnati Enquirer, 03/04/04
• In Search for Life on Mars, Machines Can Boldly Go Where Humans Can't The New York Times, Science Times Essay 01/06/04 (reprinted in International Herald Tribune (01/07/04), as "Machines are better than astronauts in Mar's quest". Also, see Cleveland Plain Dealer, "The very best space exploration is also the cheapest" (01/9/04))
• Ohio Faces A New Challenge in Intelligent-Design Debate Cleveland Plain Dealer Op-ed 11/24/03
• Computer Voting Isn't Foolproof Cleveland Plain Dealer Op-ed 10/13/03
• New Mindset, New Threat Cleveland Plain Dealer Op-ed 08/06/03
• The Citizen-Scientist's Obligation to Stand Up for Standards The New York Times, Science Times Essay, 04/22/03
• Manned space missions must continue Cleveland Plain Dealer Op-ed 02/14/03
• Decision leaves Ohio doomed to mediocrity Cleveland Plain Dealer Op-ed 12/16/02
• Words, Science, and the State of Evolution Chronicle of Higher Education, 11/29/02
• Proposed Science Standards Are Flawed Cleveland Plain Dealer Op Ed 10/22/02
• Odds Are Stacked When Science Tries to Debate Pseudoscience The New York Times, Science Times Essay 4/30/02
• Intelligent Design Isn't Science Cleveland Plain Dealer Op Ed 1/16/02
• Clouds also are Missile Shields Cleveland Plain Dealer Op Ed 12/18/01
• If the Guinea Pig Dies, Beware New York Times Op-Ed, 11/06/01
• War Won't Eliminate Terrorists Cleveland Plain Dealer Op Ed 9/21/01
• Analyze This: A Physicist on Applied Politics The New York Times, Science Times Essay 11/21/00
• Celebrating the Poetry of Imagination Without Boundaries The New York Times, Science Times Essay 6/06/00
• Pushing the Limits of Science, and of Public Relations The New York Times, Science Times Essay 3/14/00
• An Article of Faith: Science and Religion Don't Mix The Chronicle of Higher Education 11/26/99
• Test Ban Treaty is a Technical Issue Plain Dealer Editorial 10/31/99
• Stop the Flying Saucer, I Want to Get Off The New York Times Op-Ed, 2/22/99
• The Impossible Beam New York Times Op-Ed, 12/23/97
• Big Bright Secret New York Times Op-Ed, 10/11/97
• Not With a Bang or a Whimper (pdf file) The New York Times Op-Ed, 1/22/97
• Equal Time for Nonsense The New York Times Op-Ed, 7/30/96
• The Third Rock from Ursa Majoris New York Times Op-Ed, 1/21/96

Scientific American Critical Mass Column

• C.P. Snow in New York Sept 2009 issue
• see also, The Science of Origins: Studies Across All Disciplines Sept 2009 issue
• Why We Really Want to Go Back to the Moon Oct 2009 issue
• How Women Can Save the Planet Nov 2009 issue
• War Is Peace Dec 2009 issue
• The Doomsday Clock Still Ticks Jan 2010 issue
• Life in a Test Tube?: The Real Promise of Synthetic Biology Feb 2010 issue
• End of Days Danger March 2010 issue
• Dark Matters April 2010 issue
• Human Uniqueness and the Future May 2010 issue
• Why I Love Neutrinos June 2010 issue
• No Country is an Island July 2010 issue
• Faith and Foolishness August 2010 issue
• A Year of Living Dangerously Sept 2010 issue

New Scientist Worldlines Column

• Each week's column should also be accessible from this link.

• It Pays to Push Boundaries Dec 8, 2007 ( New Scientist link )
• A Science Literate President Please Dec 15, 2007 ( New Scientist link )
• Scientists, show us your good side Jan 5, 2008 ( New Scientist link )
• The end of frontier science? Jan 19, 2008 ( New Scientist link )
• Time to Nail Inflation Feb 2, 2008 ( New Scientist link )
• Ideas that Will Govern America Feb 16, 2008 ( New Scientist link )
• What Future Astronomers Won't See Mar 1, 2008 ( New Scientist link )
• Work Together, save the planet Mar 15, 2008 ( New Scientist link )
• Boltzmann Brains Mar 29, 2008 ( New Scientist link )
• Why we don't need 'scientism' and 'religionism' April 12, 2008 ( New Scientist link )
• Meet the real April Fools April 26, 2008 ( New Scientist link )
• The US should dismantle its nuclear weapons May 7, 2008 ( New Scientist link )
• Science is losing out to the allure of Wall Street May 21, 2008 ( New Scientist link )
• It's a Wonderful Cosmos June 4, 2008 ( New Scientist link )
• Stop Creationists undermining school science June 18, 2008 ( New Scientist link )
• How Einstein Kept it Simple July 2, 2008 ( New Scientist link )
• Cash Prizes won't solve our energy problems July 16, 2008 ( New Scientist link )
• Why God and Science Don't Mix July 30, 2008 ( New Scientist link )
• Are Some Things Best Left Unsaid? Aug 13, 2008 ( New Scientist link )
• Editors Must Be Our Gatekeepers Aug 27, 2008 ( New Scientist link )
• In Praise of the LHC Sept 10, 2008 ( New Scientist link )
• Let's Celebrate the Real Big Questions Sept 24, 2008 ( New Scientist link )
• Why 61 Nobel Laureates endorsed Obama Oct 8, 2008 ( New Scientist link )
• Will Reason or Unreason Prevail? Oct 29, 2008 ( New Scientist link )
• The Free Lunch That Made Our Universe Nov 19, 2008 ( New Scientist link )
• Reasons to be jolly about 2008 Dec 17, 2008 ( New Scientist link )
• Obama is making the right choices for science Jan 7, 2009 ( New Scientist link )
• Will Obama see sense about the nuclear threat? Jan 21, 2009 ( New Scientist link )
• Why the Catholic Church can't ignore Science Feb 6, 2009 ( New Scientist link )
• Celebrate evolution as only star children can Feb 18, 2009 ( New Scientist link )
• How to wage war on ignorance and poverty Mar 11, 2009 ( New Scientist link )
• Science is back in the driving seat Mar 25, 2009 ( New Scientist link )

Nature Physics Commentaries

• December 2006
• Novemberr 2006
• October 2006
• September 2006
• August 2006
• July 2006
• June 2006
• May 2006
• April 2006
• March 2006
• February 2006
• January 2006
• December 2005
• November 2005
• October 2005

Radio and Television Commentary

American Public Media's Marketplace Commentary: The Real Price of Creationism Feb 12, 2004 (requires Realplayer)

American Public Media's Marketplace Commentary: Ideology Spending March 24, 2004 (requires Realplayer)

American Public Media's Marketplace Morning Report Commentary: Visa Battles May 25, 2004 (requires Realplayer)

American Public Media's Marketplace Commentary: Another Space Race? July 29, 2004 (requires Realplayer)

Tavis Smiley Show, Scientists Express Concern Over White House Policies Oct 26, 2004

Newshour with Jim Lehrer Debate Over Intelligent Design August 5, 2005

Talk of the Nation Science Friday with Ira Flatow, Evolution and the Catholic Church Aug 12, 2005 (requires realplayer)

American Public Media's Marketplace Commentary: Theoretical Science Made Practical August 29, 2005 (requires Realplayer)

Talk of the Nation Science Friday with Ira Flatow, Hiding in the Mirror: The Mysterious Allure of Extra Dimensions Oct 21, 2005 (requires realplayer)

Cspan presentation (Part 3) of Keynote address at American Enterprise Institute, Oct 21, 2005 on the Teaching of Intelligent Design

Australian Radio National Interview with Stephen Crittendon, The Media Report: Bogus History and Pseudoscience Nov 11, 2005 (requires realplayer)

NPR's All Things Considered Commentary: In Favor of Barring ID from the Science Classroom Dec 20, 2005 (requires realplayer)

Australian Radio, The Religion Report: The Catholic Church and Evolution Aug 30, 2006 (MP3 file) html link and transcript

American Public Media's Marketplace Commentary: In the Eye of the Beholder January 30, 2007 (requires Realplayer)

American Public Media's Marketplace Morning Report Commentary: University Presidents, Take Notes (Requires Realplayer). For transcript, go to transcript April 3, 2007

American Public Media's Marketplace Commentary: Putting Lies and Fraud on Exhibit May 25, 2007 (Requires Realplayer).

Why anti-science politics is bad for America Televised segment from Ideas Festival, Aspen CO 2007

CSPAN AIRING OF LECTURE AT AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE: SCIENTIFIC LITERACY AND PUBLIC POLICY Feb 11, 2008

IPOD viewable mp4 (68 Meg) of Interview with the Daily Planet on Obama and science Jan 20, 2009 (Obama's Inauguration Day)

Interview with Radio New Zealand Nine to Noon Program, on the Universe March 5, 2009

a href="http://genesis1.asu.edu/~krauss/ssw_20090307_1214.mp3"> The Expanding Universse, and ASU, the Science Show with Robyn Williams, ABC Radio National, Australia March 7, 2009

Public Lectures and Other Selected Presentations

Schedule of Past and Upcoming Public Lectures by Lawrence Krauss

PDF version of Slides of "Selling Science to Unwilling Buyers" , Canadian Association of Physicists Annual Meeting, Saskatoon, June 19, 2007

Quicktime version of Slides of Lecture at Dole Center, Lawrence Kansas, April 4, 2006

Quicktime version of lecture Einstein's Biggest Blunder AAPT/APS New England meeting, Boston, March 31, 2006

Quicktime version of Slides of Public Lecture at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Feb 2, 2006 Science Under Attack?: From the White House to the Classroom: Public Policy, Science Education, and the Emperor's New Clothes

Quicktime version of Slides of Keynote address at American Enterprise Institute, Oct 21, 2005, Washington DE, meeting on Science Wars: Evolution and Intelligent Design, Facing Reality: Public Policy, Science Education, and the Emperor's New Clothes

Presentation at American Physical Society 2004 Meeting on Scientific Integrity in Washington: Politics Trumps Science? (pdf)

Presentation at CERCA Symposium, and Philadelphia, and Florida, on The Bush Administration and Scientific Integrity (Powerpoint), Quicktime (17.4 MB).

Quicktime movie of slides presented for Oersted Medal Lecture, AAPT, Jan 2004

Photos from Public Lecture at Quark Matter 2001, Stony Brook NY

Transcript and Newspaper Coverage of Carleton University Commencement address, June 14,2003 and Associated Unfortunate Events

Quicktime clickable movie of presentation entitled "Politics and Science" at Respect for All Involved: A National Integrity & Human Research Portections Workshop .

Slides of AAAS Plenary Topical Lecture, Feb 16,2003, Scientific Ignorance as a Way of Life

Audio Transcript of AAAS Plenary Topical Lecture, Feb 16,2003, Scientific Ignorance as a Way of Life

Slides of IMSA Great Minds Dialogue, Adler Planetarium, Chicago, Talk: Scientific Activism: Is Inaction Ethical?

Slides of keynote address, Cuyahoga Community College Symposium: "Progress. What and For Whom?"

Audio and images from Lilienfeld Prize Lecture , American Physical Society Meeting, April 28, 2001

Photos from LBL Lab Lecture and Lawrence Centenary Lecture, Berkeley, CA

Keynote Address , Inauguration of 8th President of Clark University, March 30, 2001

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Miscellaneous

Text of Open Letter to the Pope on Evolution

PDF file of Creation Museum Guide: Top Ten reasons why the universe, the Sun, the Earth, and Life are not 6000 years old

Letter to Secretary of Education Regarding Evolutionary Biology

Abstract and Full Text of Science Cover Article (Jan 3, 2003) on The Age of Globular Clusters in the Milky Way: Constraints on Cosmology.

Plain Dealer Story on CERCA and Future of Cosmology Conference by John Mangels, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Oct 6, 2003.

Recent Scientific American Articles by Lawrence Krauss

NY Times Coverage of Evolution vs Intelligent Design Debate in Ohio by Francis X. Clines, March 12, 2002

Slides of Presentation before Ohio Board of Education Standard Committee March 11,2002 debate on "Should Intelligent Design be included in Ohio's Draft Science Academic Content standards?"

End of Life Article by Dennis Overbye, NYTimes Jan 1, 2002

Testimony for House Committee on Science Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, Vision 2001 Hearing on the Future of Space Exploration, April 3, 2001

Slides of Presentation on Cosmological Parameters at ESA-CERN-ESO Symposium, Munich March 4, 2002

Physics 566 2003-4 Academic Year Stuff