Guitar Hero Goes to the Opera, April 2011, The Atlantic Monthly

Go Go Gadget Boots, July 2010, NPR, Weekend Edition


The Little Black Piezoelectric Dress, June 2010, The Atlantic Monthly

Who Wants To Marry A Robot?, August 2009, Slate Double X

You're So Vain, March 2008, New Scientist

Nothing Like a Dame, February 2008, Technology Review

Ellen Swallow Richards, November 2007, Technology Review

ESSAYS

The House of No Personal Pronouns, July 2007, New York Times

Word Economics, November 2007, The Vocabula Review

Photoelectric, Baby: A Linguist Tackles Physics, October 2007, The Vocabula Review

Perilous Pronouns, October 2005, The Vocabula Review

The Book, October 2008, NPR "This I Believe" Archives

OTHER

Time Remembered, Honorable Mention 2001 Peregrine Prize Fiction, Peregrine, vol. XX and XXI, 2001