October 29, 2007, O.M. Stewart Colloquium, Department of Physics, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
"MAKING HARD WORK EASY: Writing About Science and Other Difficult Things": Clarity and accuracy are not always enough to overcome the ordinary reader's fears of -- or indifference to -- synapses, fractals, quasars, and quarks.
October 28, 2007, Campus Writing Program, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
Brown Bag discussion, "Writing to Learn, Learning to Write"
October 28, 2007, Cultural Association of India, 50th Anniversary Celebration, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
"INFINITY + 20": Almost two decades after beginning work on The Man Who Knew Infinity, I tell of Ramanujan's increasing presence in the cultural and scientific life of the West.
September 29, 2007, Leather Industries of America, Annual Members Meeting, Jacksonville, FL
On Faux Real
September 25, 2007, MIT Writers Series, Cambridge, MA
On Faux Real
September 20, 2007, Fall Lecture Series, Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, DE
On Faux Real
June 1, 2007, Business History Conference, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland
"All Shortcomings Have Been Eliminated," talk given for a panel, "Who Needs the Real Thing?" with Regina Lee Blaszczyk, Miriam Levin, and David Hounshell
April 20, 2007, American Society of Journalists and Authors conference, New York
Moderated panel, "Making Hard Work Easy: Writing About Science and Other Difficult Things," with Alan Burdick, Rebecca Skloot, and Jonathan Weiner
