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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.
Mining technology
21 November 2002
Caves of steel
Mines are getting smarter.
Plus a box on refining ore with bacteria >>>
Technology
tags: mines, The Economist
Pear review
14 November 2002
Publish and perish
Just how rigorous is the process of scientific publication?
Complexity
31 October 2002
NP or not NP?
Tetris, a popular computer game, turns out to be hard for a reason.
Orbiting telescopes
24 October 2002
Integral observations
A new gamma-ray telescope has just been launched.
Real-world Topology
3 October 2002
What does the Internet look like?
It is less random than people thought.
Jhai PC
26 September 2002
Making the Web world-wide
A project in Laos is giving Internet access to villagers without electricity.
So that’s what hapenned
19 September 2002
Transcendental Medicine
Out-of-body experiences come from stimulating one part of the brain.
Waiting, waiting
20 September 2001
Instant-on, magnetically
Magnetic memory chips are poised to give traditional DRAMs a run for their money.
Technology
tags: The Economist
Fidelity
20 September 2001
Seeing is believing
With twice the sharpness of previous screens, a new liquid-crystal display offers images that appear indistinguishable from the real thing.
Technology
tags: The Economist
Not poison
8 September 2001
Arsenic and chips
An old contender’s time has come.
Technology
tags: The Economist
Whirlwind
23 August 2001
Storm troopers
A step forward in the understanding of hurricanes should soon take place.
Weaponising Space
26 July 2001
Something to watch over you
America’s defence establishment is thinking about weaponising space. Some people doubt that this a good idea.
Asymmetry in creation
12 July 2001
The fact of the matter
The first results of an experiment designed to find out why the universe is composed of matter have just been announced.
Bose-Einstein Condensates
5 July 2001
Cold, quickly
A new way has been devised to make a peculiar form of matter.
Data transmission
28 June 2001
The glass ceiling
Optical fibres could carry much more information in the future.
Technology
tags: The Economist