Sidney Perkowitz has written some 150 online and print articles, essays, blog posts and book chapters on science for popular audiences, including children. His work has appeared in the LA Times, Washington Post, Physics World, and other major media outlets.
Those outlets include The Miami Herald, The Guardian, San Jose Mercury, Houston Chronicle, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Sciences, Technology Review, Literal, The Bridge, The Scientist, New Scientist, J. Tech. Writing Commun., Times (London), Odyssey, and more. His work has also appeared in national magazines and journals, including Denver Quarterly, The American Prospect, Art Papers, and Leonardo, and in books such as The Metaphorical Circuit.
His topics include popular science, the humor and culture of science, science on stage and screen, science and art, science and mythology, the literature of technology, and contemporary artists who use scientific ideas.
For full publication details, see his curriculum vita (.pdf).
Recent Articles
- “Do We Have Moral Obligations to Robots?,” JSTOR Daily, Nov. 29, 2017.
- “Weigh Benefits and Costs of Predictive Policing Before It’s Too Late,” The Pennsylvania Gazette (letter), Nov./Dec. 2017, 4.
- “Nobody Knows the Quantum,” Imagine Science Films Labocine Spotlight, Oct. 19, 2017.
- “Abstract theory has real consequences, in the past and today,” Imagine Science Films Labocine Spotlight, Oct. 5, 2017.
- “Real Physics on Screen,” Imagine Science Films Labocine Spotlight, Sept. 17, 2017.
- “When Vision Betrays: Cataracts, Aging and Creating Art,” Emory Health Digest, Autumn 2017, 20 – 25.
- “Everything Worth Knowing: Ice, It’s Everywhere!,” Discover, July/August 2017, 66 – 69
- “Little Things That Matter,” Physics World, May 2017, 30 – 34.
- “How to Understand the Resurgence of Eugenics,” JSTOR Daily, April 5, 2017.
- Interview, Bloomberg News: “Hidden Figures’ Math Heroines Add Up to Unlikely Hit for Fox,” Feb. 24, 2017.
- “Crimes of the Future,” Aeon, Oct. 27, 2016.
- “These Georgia Tech Physicists Helped Prove Einstein Right,” Atlanta Magazine, Sept. 19, 2016.
- “Boldly Going for 50 Years,” Nature 537, Sept. 8, 2016, 165 – 166.
- “Paint it Nanoblack,” Physics World, August 2016, 48.
- “El Infinito en el Cine (Infinity on Screen),” ¿cómoves?, August 2016, 16 – 19.
- “Mr. Turner, Artist, Meets Mrs. Somerville, Scientist,” Interalia, July 2016.
- “Las Lesiones Cerebrales en el Futbol (Brain Injuries in Soccer),” ¿cómoves?, June 2016, 8 – 13.
- “Atrapado en Marte (Trapped on Mars),” ¿cómoves?, April 2016, 24 – 27.
- “The Internet Before the Internet: Paul Otlet’s Mundaneum,” JSTOR Daily, March 5, 2016.
- “Removing Humans from the AI Loop – Should We Panic?,” Los Angeles Review of Books, Feb. 18, 2016.
- “How Close are We to Actually Becoming Martians?,” The Conversation, Oct. 1, 2015. (Republished, Time.com, Futurity.org, others)
- “Light Dawns,” Aeon, Sept. 18, 2015.
- “John Markoff’s Love of ‘Machines’,” Creative Loafing, Sept. 3 – 9, 2015, 23.
- “A Short Take on Mathematics (Review of Math Geek),” Los Angeles Review of Books, July 30, 2015.
- “Bruce Munro brings ‘Light’ to the Atlanta Botanical Garden,” Creative Loafing, July 16 – 22, 2015, 15.
- “El Laser; un Idea Luminous y Versatile (The Laser: a Bright and Versatile Idea),” ¿cómoves?, July 2015, 22 – 25.
- “Galeria de la Luz (Gallery of light),” ¿cómoves?, July 2015, 20 – 21.
- “Disipar las Tinieblas (Defeating Darkness),” ¿cómoves?, July 2015, 18 – 19.
- “Technologia del la Luz (The Technology of Light),” ¿cómoves?, July 2015, 16 – 17.
- “The Internet of Things: Totally New and a Hundred Years Old,” JSTOR Daily, June 10, 2015.
- “The Most Popular Physics Meme Ever,” Physics World, May 2015, 52.
- “Turing y Hawking, ¿típicos nerds? (Turing and Hawking, Typical Nerds?),” ¿cómoves?, April 2015, 16 – 19.
- “Y Se Hizo la Luz (And There Was Light),” Quo, April 2015, 32 – 41. (cover story, cover).
- “Rooms With a View,” Physics World, March 2015, 52 – 56.
- “Illuminating Light,” Interalia, Dec. 2014.
- “Internet de Las Cosas: Novedad que Cumple un Siglo (The Internet of Things: Innovation that Fulfills a Century),” ¿cómoves?, Dec. 2014, 32 – 33.
- “Quantum Gravity,” Aeon, Nov. 11, 2014.
- “Cuerpo y Mente Unidos Por un Chip (Body and Mind Joined by a Chip),” Quo, Nov. 2014, 40 – 44.
- “Extrañeza Cuánticas (Quantum Strangeness),” Quo, August 2014, 44 – 49.
- “Future Meat,” Evolve, June 2014.
- “Bichos Apantallantes (Impressive Bugs),” ¿cómoves?, May 2014, 22 – 24.
- “The Art of Falling Fluid,” Physics World, April 2014, 52.
- “Reaching the Nearest Star, and Lighting Hogwarts Castle,” Scientists’ Bookshelf, March 18, 2014.
- “Qué tan Realista es el Cinema Espacio? (How Realistic are Movies set in Space?),” ¿cómoves?, March 2014, 22 – 25.
- “Arte, Física y Revolución (Art, Physics and Revolution),” ¿cómoves?, January 2014, 22 – 25.
