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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.
The Last Days of Bank Secrecy?
1 September 2009
An article I wrote for Poder, a magazine about business in Latin America, that describes the crumbling of bank secrecy and what it means for the region.
The Caribbean
tags: Banking, Poder, Switzerland, Wealth
Israel and the West Bank
30 July 2009
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- The church of the Holy Sepulchre
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- A street in the old city of Jerusalem
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- The crusader fort in Acco
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- A kid selling owls in the West Bank
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- An Israeli settler in the West Bank
Shelter from the Storm
15 May 2009
An article for Poder, a Latin American business magazine, about the impact of the economic crisis on the Caribbean.
There was an Old Person of Buda,
22 February 2009
Whose conduct grew ruder and ruder,
Till at last with a hammer
They silenced his clamour,
By smashing that Person of Buda.
Book of Nonsense, Edward Lear
There was an Old Man of the Isles,
20 February 2009
Whose face was pervaded with smiles;
He sung “High dum diddle,”
And played on the fiddle,
That amiable man of the Isles.
Nonsense Omnibus, Edward Lear
Haiti
12 February 2009
The island and the outside world
Being in Haiti without being in Haiti
The Caribbean
tags: Gonaives, Haiti, Labadee, United Nations
Rebuilding Haiti
12 February 2009
Weighed down by disasters
A modest success for the United Nations is threatened by nature and lassitude
The Caribbean
tags: Gonaives, Haiti, hurricanes, United Nations
Remittances to Mexico
11 December 2008
The end of the American dream
The recession up north bites in rural Mexico
Around Mexico
1 December 2008
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- Women collecting their payments from Opportunidades, a conditional cash transfer programme
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- Women collecting their payments from Opportunidades, a conditional cash transfer programme
The last days of the scribe
20 November 2008
The scribes’ lament
A dying profession in the heart of the city