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January 1, 2019 rough cuts / society / technology

Racing with drones and dancing with robots

How can we tell a new technology has become humanized? When we begin to play with it. (800 words + videos; approx. 30 mins. reading/viewing)

May 17, 2018 astronomy / history of science / long form / philosophy of science / physics / publications

Learning to see [Aeon, American Scientist]

One astronomer’s dimpled pie is another’s cratered moon. How can our mind’s eye learn to see the new and unexpected? (3900 words)

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A scientist on walkabout

Marshall Islands, July 2016. (8000 words)

April 25, 2016 long form / physics / publications

A physics without time [Aeon]

From past to present, into the future: the flow of time is central to human experience. Why isn’t it central to physics? (3600 words)

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What We Lose When We Don’t Look At The Night Sky [Wisconsin Public Radio]

An interview with Rob Ferret of Wisconsin Public Radio. The stars, Polynesian voyaging, human exploration of the solar system. It’s all here. (12 mins. listening time)

December 23, 2015 astronomy / history of science / long form / publications / society

Sky Readers [Aeon]

For most of human history, the stars told us where we were in space and time. Have we forgotten how to look up? (3600 words)

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