Alright – the last post about visceral incentives for a bit, but I have incredibly strong bipolar feelings about this Playstation advertisement.   On the one hand it engages me and makes me really excited! Who doesn’t want to be a classy, fireball-throwing, raging badass.  On the other hand, it directs... [Read More]

I'm a big fan of entrepreneurial win-win situations and from what I can tell, this indiegogo campaign is one of those: kids get introduced to electronics, people like me get cheap Arduino clones, and the guy running it gets to have his name out there. If you're interested in home... [Read More]

An open question that I’ve been struggling with since the conference: What deep-seated human –need- can space exploration fulfill for a massive number of people? This question is based purely out of selfishness: space exploration fulfills my basic human need for greater meaning and excitement. But it doesn’t do that... [Read More]

Saturday (sometimes space) stories! A housemate from Caltech continues to do an excellently detailed job describing his ditch day stack - I may take a page out of his book. This project seems pretty awesome (and related to my area of research), but I wonder if it is any more... [Read More]

With (unedited) headlines like these, no wonder most people don’t find science worthwhile: “Physicists at the University of California at Berkeley are putting Albert Einstein's theory of special relativity to the test with an experiment using electrons.”   “Study: Large volcanoes can produce fast-moving magma”  Here is my version of... [Read More]