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I edited and wrote part of a short book published by New America in July 2015 and freely available online, about how drones are being used in new ways around the world. It's meant to be useful to people who want to fly drones.The Pioneer Detectives
I published a short book with The Millions.
It's the story of the Pioneer Anomaly, a long-standing mystery. The book is short and fun—the length of a novella—but also, in the words of Amazon's reviewer, "powerful and sad". If you've got any curiosity about how NASA works behind the scenes or why scientists believe what they do, I think you'll enjoy the book.
It is available on Amazon as a Kindle Single and also on Apple's iBooks.Drone Wars
I wrote a chapter on the long history of drone technology going back to the early 20th century in this edited Cambridge University Press volume.
Derek Walcott
4 November 2004
The death of earth
A review of Derek Walcott’s new book-length poem.
Book Reviews
tags: The Economist
Johnny Cash
16 September 2004
Ring of Firesales
A review of a new book about Johnny Cash’s Folsom prison concert
Book Reviews
tags: The Economist
Nicholson Baker
2 September 2004
Room with a point of view
A review of Checkpoint, Nicholson Baker’s new novel.
Book Reviews
tags: The Economist
In defense (reluctantly) of Michael Moore
8 July 2004
Sinned against
A review of a book which is a big fast stupid attack on Michael Moore.
Dan Brown’s aftermath
13 May 2004
Da Vinci, codes, and all that
The good, the bad, and the ugly of books about Da Vinci and the nature of mathematics.
Book Reviews
tags: The Economist
String Theory
15 April 2004
All strung out
A review of Brian Greene’s book “The Fabric of the Cosmos”.
Book Reviews
tags: The Economist
The nature of science
7 August 2003
The myth of structure
A review of a book by Steve Fuller about a historic debate between Karl Popper and Thomas Kuhn about the nature of science.
Physical constants
30 January 2003
The trouble with constants
A review of 2 new books about physical constants by Joao Magueijo and John Barrow.
Book Reviews
tags: The Economist