I wrote a post for the SSDS blog about the concept of massless space exploration and how my research ties into it. Check it out!

Awesome Space Links of the Week 9/29 It has Legos, I couldn’t resist. This advice actually applies pretty directly to research or any creative endeavor. Nothing new, but fun to see through the lens of Legos. Now here's a super Sunday I could get excited about (sorry football) It's especially... [Read More]

Inspired by an EconTalk episode about rational optimism, a Planet Money episode about dairy farming, a lecture about singular value decompositions and perhaps too much coffee, some more thoughts about specialization: As Russ Roberts and Matt Ridley point out, the positive feedback loop between increasing trade/technology and increasing specialization is... [Read More]

Robert Sapolsky used a great analogy in a lecture about the limbic system. He was describing case studies in which neurologists tried to use incidental brain trauma to determine the function of different parts of the brain. When someone had to have part of their brain removed and their behavior... [Read More]

To my chagrin, I caught myself using the phrase ‘studies show…’ the other day. This innocuous and common phrase occupies a similar place in my brain to the ‘democratic we.’  If you think about it, no study can “show” a fact.  A study can demonstrate correlations, it can make arguments... [Read More]