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I've been writing a monthly column about chemistry, elements, blowing things up, etc, for Popular Science magazine since July, 2003.

Please note, this list is often way out of date!
I'm really lazy with getting them scanned, so this list has been as much as a year out of date sometimes. Just because it looks like I haven't written anything in years doesn't mean I haven't.

Check the Popular Science website too, they are usually more up to date with recent articles, though not so good with older ones.

November 2009 Spark Fun	October 2009 Flash Bang
September 2009 Gone in a Flash	July 2009 Power Sculpting
June 2009 Cold, Hard Facts	May 2009 The Other White Heat
March 2009 Blowing (Up) Bubbles	February 2009 Building a Tough Bit
January 2009 Homemade Titanium	December 2008 Glass Grill
October 2008 Metal's Hidden Treasure	September 2008 Make Your Own Ammo
August 2008 Quantum Physics in a Glass	July 2008 Shattering the Strongest Glass
June 2008 Let Burning Metals Lie	May 2008 The Instant Hot Tub
April 2008 Flaming Oxygen Drops	March 2008 Trap Lightning in a Block
February 2008 Fire Without Flame	January 2008 Titanium or Plain Ol' Steel?
December 2007 Plate your 'Pod	November 2007 Burning Metal
October 2007 Transform Hand Warmers to Liquid Ice Sculptures	September 2007 How to Make a Lamp out of Lime
August 2007 Make Your Own Ethanol	July 2007 Pretty Penny
June 2007 Atoms and Eves	May 2007 Spark of Destruction
February 2007 A Tall Glass of Juice	December 2006 An Elemental Fascination
November 2006 Soup-Can Searchlight	October 2006 Making Salt the Hard Way
September 2006 Playing With Poison	August 2006 Dry Ice Cream
July 2006 Ice Capades	June 2006 Rocket Food
May 2006 Stir Up Some Nylon	April 2006 Nickel Growing in Trees
March 2006 Save a Snowflake for Decades	February 2006 Making a Deadly Sun
January 2006 Making a Perfect Match	December 2005 Make Your Own Lightbulb
October 2005 Making Silicon from Sand	August 2005 Titanium in Technicolor
July 2005 Calling Van Helsing	June 2005 Make Everything Golden
April 2005 The Original Photo Flash	March 2005 Seeing the Subatomic
February 2005 Gag with a Spoon	January 2005 The Worst Way to Inlay
November 2004 Grow Crystals in a Cup	October 2004 The Amazing Rusting Aluminum
August 2004 For that Healthy Glow, Drink Radiation!	August 2004 Making Steel with Beach Sand
July 2004 Uncovering a Natural (Magnetic) Attraction	May 2004 The Most Potent Force in Science Today!
May 2004 Melting the Unmeltable	April 2004 Getting the Lead In
March 2004 Futuristic Metal Cutting for the Masses	February 2004 Ignorance = Maglev = Bliss
December 2003 The Subatomic Assembly of H₂O	October 2003 Making Small Change Smaller
September 2003 Smelting in a Microwave	August 2003 Casting About, from Al to Zinc
July 2003 Microcrystalline in 30 Seconds