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Drones and Aerial Observation
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
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Social Networks
30 September 2004
Circles of friends
What maths tells us about us.
Science
tags: graph theory, terrorism, The Economist
Dodging bullets…
30 September 2004
Far away, so close
A large asteroid sweeps by the Earth. Where are the others?
Looking for planets around distant stars
23 September 2004
In search of the Earth Mark II
Terrestrial exoplanets will likely be found soon.
Extreme Weather
16 September 2004
Shelter from the storm
What hurricane scientists study when they study hurricanes
Science
tags: hurricanes, meteorology, The Economist
Anatomy of a search engine
16 September 2004
How Google works
A brief history of the world’s most revolutionary search engine. Plus, an interview with me about that brief history.
Medical Testing
9 September 2004
Sounds of silence
Drug companies may soon be forced to report the results of all clinical trials.
Telescopes in orbit
28 August 2004
X-ray specs
A retrospective on NASA’s Great Observatories, Compton, and Spitzer.
Understanding gravity
21 August 2004
An invisible hand
A gravitational mystery affecting pendulums and satellites–could General Relativity be wrong?
Quantum oddities
17 June 2004
In the twinkling of an ion
Two groups have succeeded in teleporting quantum states.
Profile: Dennis Ritchie, Unix pioneer
10 June 2004
Unix’s founding fathers
A profile of Dennis Ritchie and his colleaugues who first developed C, the programming language, and Unix.