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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.
Remittances to Mexico
11 December 2008
The end of the American dream
The recession up north bites in rural Mexico
Mexican banks
1 May 2008
Riding high
Mexico’s fast-growing banks appear unusually unaffected by the financial crisis north of the border
Mexico and the United States
23 August 2007
Death in the desert
The impact of tighter border security
Mexican banking
23 November 2006
Underwear and overdrafts
Retailers, including Wal-Mart, aim to offer bank accounts to Mexico’s poor