ⓜ By Design (Interview, and response)
(And Then I Wrote...)
Since this site began more than six years ago, every Thursday I have been publishing a reprint from my column "Across the Universe" in the British Catholic journal, The Tablet. I have finally gone through all of them (except for 2019's columns) and I've even re-published a few of the oldest ones that came out here before our readership had grown.
In order to let my backlog build up a bit, I am taking "Across the Universe" offline for 2020. Instead, I am republishing a selection of other articles that I have written an published in various places... often obscure.

I took this photo from a cablecar looking down on a rainforest outside Cairns, Australia... a site full of life as exotic as any on any planet...
Interview and Response: At an early Astrobiology conference (in 2005), the NASA online magazine Astrobiology did an interview of me; here's what they ran: (Click Here for the version on their site)
After this ran, someone wrote to me challenging me on a few of my points and wanting to know just what it was I meant... looking through my files I found the following, which it appears that I actually did send something in reply to them. The letter itself is long lost, so I have no idea whom it was I was replying to!
Here's what I prepared to send them:
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