I review Paul Davies' latest book, The Eerie Silence, for the Globe & Mail. Davies gives a comprehensive account of the "SETI" program, weighing the evidence for – and against – a universe teeming with intelligent life.

I was recently featured in two videos as part of TVO's literacy outreach program. In the first video, called "Time and Space," I explain how looking at the stars is like looking back in time. In the second video, "Knowing the Night Sky," I talk about my life-long love of stargazing.

I'll be participating in a panel discussion on the scientific and cultural understanding of time, as part of the "Ad Hoc Vox" series, in New York on April 15. The event, to be held at the Zurcher Gallery on Bleecker St., will explore "how scientific and cultural understandings of time affect the lived experience of time." The panel will also include physicist Sean Carroll, philosopher David Albert, and cultural theorists Stephanie Clare and Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth.

Read a full description of the event on the Ad Hoc Vox website.

I review the new IMAX movie, "Hubble 3D," for New Scientist's "Culture Lab" website. The movie features several "voyages" through the Milky Way and beyond, as well as stunning footage shot by the space shuttle astronauts themselves -- "a nice combination of astronautical derring-do and the more cerebral thrills of modern cosmology."