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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.
Iraq
The War in Iraq
11 April 2004
Counting the casualties
A statistically based study claims that many more Iraqis have died in the conflict than previous estimates indicated.
Statistics
tags: Clustering, Iraq, Sampling, The Economist
Mobile telephony
11 September 2003
The victor divides the calls
A war over mobile phones in Iraq.
Business News
tags: Iraq, The Economist
A rumour of war
6 March 2003
Clipping the enemy’s wings
American military technology has moved on a lot since the Gulf war. How precision weapons, improvements in logistics, and other innovations would change the face of a war with Iraq.