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)
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)
A scientist on walkabout
Marshall Islands, July 2016. (8000 words)
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)
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)
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)
