A Few of My Literary Works

 

Coming Home (a short story constructed of song lyrics and one song title [from a song that didn't have lyrics], as determined "randomly" by loading up iTunes and using the 11 songs it played, 2/17/07)

Caltech Laboratory Animals Discover Secret to Life, the Universe, and Everything (04/01/06) (plus a couple reactions)

A Mathematician's Battle Cry (06/26/04)

 

Physics Haikus (05/21/04)

 

Pulitzer Prize Awarded to Cvitanovic (04/01/05)

 

CNS Recruitment Flyer

 

Two Romantic Paragraphs About What I Do (02/07/04)

 

A Beautiful Summer Day

 

Chaos

 

Witticisms for a Rainy Day

 

Dictionary Definitions for a Modern World

 

Mathematical Defitions of Triviality

 

So You Want to Be a Scientist? (BH Weekly version)

 

So You Want to Be a Scientist? (newer version)

 

Letter to Time Magazine

 

Announcement for a Fake Conference on Semiclassical Analysis

 

The Art and Science of Programming VCRs and Getting Appliances to Explode

 

Camsta's Paradise

 

Waiting for Sanity: 2000 Election Edition

 

The Bills

 

The Weather

 

Last Will and Temperment

 

A Rigorous Comparison between Mathematicians and Engineers

 

Procrastination

 

Georgy at the Bat

 

The Ten Worst Things About Teaching Science Courses Underwater

 

Life Is...

 

Video Games: The Scourge of Society

 

A Theoretical Study of Quantum Cuteness (03/02/04)

 

Bill Clinton: The Next Candide

 

The Fight of the Century

 

A Massless, Frictionless World

 

The History of the World Through Mathematics

 

A New World Peace

 

Ode to Immaturity

 

Lotus, The Fire Blossom

 

Expectations

 

Mathematics and Spam

 

A Life in the Day of Humanity

 

Confusion

 

Everybody Wants to Solve the World

 

Everybody's Free to Study Mathematics

 

A Typical Day in Graduate School

 

Happiness

 

Why?


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