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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.
Understanding gravity
15 April 2004
Turn, turn, turn
A new satellite, Gravity Probe B, will test Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity.
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
The Bush Administration and Science
8 April 2004
Cheating nature?
How the Bush administration manipultes science to suit its own ends.
Novel computational techniques
1 April 2004
Bit by bit
Developments in quantum computing and chaotic computing
Standard modelling
27 March 2004
Precise in every part
A new measurement of the muon is revealing problems with the standard model of physics.
Super-super-sonic Flight
27 March 2004
Speed demon
The first flight of a scramjet–at Mach 7.
Technology
tags: aerospace, scramjets, The Economist
Sabermetrics, generalized
22 March 2004
Moneyballs!
How statistics are changing sports beyond baseball.
The outer solar system
20 March 2004
10 Planets, or 8?
A new object has been detected far beyond Pluto
A finely drawn map
13 March 2004
Why speed isn’t everything
The next generation of microchip design
Technology
tags: microchips, The Economist
Bounding information
6 March 2004
Hair today
String theory might reveal the internal structure of black holes
Solid-state light
6 March 2004
Seeing c
How to freeze light on a computer chip.
Technology
tags: light, The Economist
Towards the planck length
28 February 2004
Atto boy!
The shortest time, and smallest mass, yet measured
Climbing the periodic table
5 February 2004
Two new elements
A Russian-American collaboration has created two new chemical elements.
Modern-day aether?
5 February 2004
A cosmological conundrum
What if the dark energy and dark matter essential to modern explanations of the universe don’t really exist?