Actress Logan Browning (of Netflix's Dear White People) reads my New York Times Modern Love essay on love and circadian rhythms.

Can quantum mechanics describe a universe containing multiple observers, or is it a "single-user theory"? I give a talk at the University of Vienna for their lecture series on scientific realism.

How can we make sense of the universe when we're stuck inside of it? I spoke with physicist Lee Smolin.

I join Sean Carroll, Marcus Chown and Donna Roberts on the radio to discuss all things gravity with Colin McEnroe.

"Physics finds that the world is observer-dependent but remains silent on the nature of the observer. Cognitive science finds that the observer is an active participant but never questions the nature of the physical world. Enactivism might just be the concept we need to begin to piece the two sides together." My answer to this year's Edge Annual Question. 

"We made the most of the hours when our lives overlapped, then let each other thrive in our own times, like animals in our wilds." In my Modern Love essay for the New York Times, I discuss the challenges of love and romance in the face of delayed sleep phase disorder. 

"There was something uncanny about Besso. Over the coming years, he would always show up at exactly the right moment, the perfect deus ex machina, handing Einstein books, innocently offering suggestions, prodding him, goading him, nudging him onto the right path, as if he had a plan.” His plan? To bring to life Ernst Mach's vision to unite the universe and the mind. "When Einstein Tilted at Windmills" in the Heroes issue of Nautilus. 

Is there more than one universe out there? If so, will we ever know? More fun times on the smart and entertaining Colin McEnroe Show on NPR.

Nature's Brendan Maher offers an insightful close reading/story diagram of "The Man Who Tried to Redeem the World With Logic" for The Open Notebook. We also discuss the story behind the story in a Q&A. 

Did we evolve to see something other than reality? My interview with the provocative and fascinating cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman in Quanta. 

You know it's a new year when John Brockman asks scientists and thinkers its annual question at Edge.org. This year: What's the most interesting recent scientific news? For me, it's the emerging link between computational complexity and fundamental physics. 

The New York Times's David Brooks has honored "The Man Who Tried to Redeem the World with Logic" with a 2015 Sidney Award for long-form essay writing. 

I am excited to learn that my Nautilus article about Walter Pitts has won the first place Golden Giraffe for the best writing of 2015...in no small part because the prize was a giraffe stuffed with money. Many thanks to The Browser for this auricamelopardine honor.

Physics World has chosen Trespassing as its 2015 Book of the Year! It's a real honor, and I especially appreciate the comments that reviews editor Margaret Harris makes about the book in their podcast. Thanks, Physics World! 

I am truly honored to win the AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Silver Award in Magazine Writing, for my piece about Walter Pitts in Nautilus magazine. 

In honor of the 100th birthday of general relativity, I spoke with Kara Miller of Innovation Hub on WGBH Boston

I had such a blast talking to Colin McEnroe on WNPR about quantum mechanics and the nature of reality.

What happens when an electron is put on trial for identity fraud? Shit gets metaphysical.

A conversation with Margaret Harris on the Physics World podcast 

I'm excited to see Trespassing on this list, compiled by physicist and writer Chad Orzel

The Open Notebook, an amazing resource for science journalists, profiled me in their Day in The Life series.

I spoke with Vanessa Lowe, who produces the beautiful podcast "Nocturne," about my circadian rhythm disorder, and what it's like to live my life at night.

"Quantum mechanics is a law of thought." So says the ever fascinating Chris Fuchs, founder of the participatory realist interpretation of quantum mechanics known as QBism. My favorite line from our conversation? "Dogs don't use wave functions. Heck, I didn't collapse a wave function until I was 34!" 

What happens if you fall into a black hole? What will you find there? Another universe? Oblivion? The back of a bookcase? And can you even fall in at all, or will you first encounter an inexplicable wall of fire that violates general relativity and burns you to a crisp? The most serious questions in physics.

Walter Pitts: the homeless teen runaway who revolutionized neuroscience, inspired the design of modern computers and laid the foundations of artificial intelligence. 

I'm so excited to announce the launch of BookLab, the new podcast hosted by Dan Falk and myself. In each episode, we'll be putting popular science books under the microscope. For in depth discussions on everything from parallel universes to the birth of computers to the nature of consciousness, and for great book recommendations, be sure to tune in! On LibSyn, SoundCloud and iTunes. 

I'm honored that the esteemed Kirkus Reviews named Trespassing on Einstein's Lawn one of the Best Books of 2014. Very happy to be one of the newcomers.

"It got really odd, because we couldn’t figure out if we were living in the book or outside the book! It was very strange.” The Pennsylvania Gazette talks with my dad about the road to Trespassing. 

"Perhaps the best popular science book that has appeared this year, Gefter shows the reader how much someone can learn about physics without ever having taken a single university class on the topic."

At Cocktail Party Physics, the always fabulous Jennifer Ouellette chose her favorite physics books of the year and Trespassing is one of them! "Trespassing on Einstein’s Lawn is part memoir, part explanatory physics — except Gefter’s writing is so well-crafted and witty, it never feels didactic." 

BookRiot chose their "favorite books about life, the universe and everything" and Trespassing made the cut! "Trespassing on Einstein’s Lawn is both the story of how Gefter became a journalist (spoiler: it’s hilarious, inspiring, and totally awesome) and a profound, in-depth look at the very nature of reality, from quantum mechanics to multiverses."

Trespassing made the list! "Gefter’s text stands out as one that “tackles weighty concepts in physics and philosophy…[with] enough charm and personality” to pull it off."

On November 10, 2014 I gave a talk about Trespassing, invariance and the nature of reality at Google's office in Cambridge, MA. Check out the video here! 

From Discovery to Dust: A scientific odyssey. My narrative account of the decades that led to BICEP2 and the possible discovery of gravitational waves - through the eyes of the physicists who journeyed to the ends of the Earth and the edges of the mind in their quest to understand the origin of the universe.

Could nothing be what something looks like from the inside? Frozen universes, hidden fields and quantum maggots - my essay on the strange logic of nothing. 

What should parents and educators do with angsty, misbehaving teens? Steer them toward physics for the ultimate exercise in rebellion. 

Black holes, observers, the theory of everything and the meaning of nothing...I chat with Dutch journalist Pieter van der Wielen (English with Dutch subtitles)

The Dutch edition of Trespassing has just come out, from the amazing team at Maven Publishing. Once you've solved the mystery of the universe, have a hand at the crossword puzzle on the back flap.

Jermey Matthews, books editor at Physics Today, asked some great questions in this Bookends Q&A.

A concept developed for computer science could have a key role in fundamental physics — and point the way to a new understanding of space and time. My feature story in Nature.

What does the M in M theory stand for? In the 19 April issue of New Scientist, I get to the bottom of the mystery. Adapted from my book, Trespassing on Einstein's Lawn.

Invariance and reality, black holes and firewalls, emergence and consciousness - Jennifer Ouellette and I chat about it all on the Virtually Speaking Science podcast on BlogTalkRadio and at the Exploratorium in Second Life. 

"Look: there’s my mind, sitting on someone’s nightstand beside the red-framed glasses." My guest post on the awkwardness of promoting a book about solipsism at the awesome blog Cocktail Party Physics.

I'm very honored to have my essay included in John Brockman's newest collection of think pieces, What Should We Be Worried About? (Harper Perennial, 2014). You can read my piece here on Edge.org. 

Looking for a combination of quantum rodents, structural realism and balls? You can read a chapter from Trespassing on Einstein's Lawn at Scientific American.

I am thrilled to be a new member of PEN American Center, an organization dedicated to promoting literature and freedom of expression around the world. 

My chat with Calla Cofield about physics, philosophy and dangerous ideas.

For John Archibald Wheeler, the physics of time was personal. My article in the January issue of Nautilus.

"Nothing quite prepared me for this book." Scientific American's George Musser blogs about Trespassing on Einstein's Lawn.

What scientific idea is ready for retirement? I argue that it's the universe. 

The first review of my new book, Trespassing on Einstein's Lawn (Bantam, 1/14), is in! From Kirkus Reviews.

In this week's New Scientist I talk with physicists and mathematicians who say it's time to give up on the idea of the infinite.

My contribution to the Edge.org conversation with the always intriguing Lee Smolin on the reality of time and the mutability of physical law.

I am thrilled to have won the FQXi 2012 Essay Contest Judging Panel Discretionary Prize for my essay,"Cosmic Solipsism". 

I am honored to be included in John Brockman's book of Edge essays offering scientific concepts that promise to improve everyone's cognitive toolkit - you can read my piece on duality here​

My contribution to the 2013 annual Edge question: What should we be worried about? (Or what can we stop worrying about?)