A tale of incentives and innovation generated by post-travel-pre-Ames rushing:  Today I got a bike from a startup that rents out bikes that need a home over the summer. It’s inefficiency destroying and thus full of win:  I win because I get a nice bike for the summer with all... [Read More]

I passed my A exam (yay!) and made it to California (yay!) and am utterly exhausted (boo!) The reason I’m out here is to work at the NASA Ames Research Center. Few people realize there’s a NASA facility right next to Google. The Google culture seems to be infectious, from... [Read More]

I'm headed to California in 6 hours, so I'm going to cheat and give you this weeks Saturday Space Stories! - hey, it's Saturday in Europe. ooooohhh shiny  More SpaceX reusable rocket developments I'm not really sure what they're trying to achieve here - Hitler beat them to it Really... [Read More]

(scottish accent) Captain! The A-Exam engines are running at 110% I don't think think she can take it much longah! Since I already have my historian hat on from yesterday, I wanted to quickly point out this fun new blog I discovered: http://askthepast.blogspot.com.  They dredge up advice from old (pre-18th century)... [Read More]

As I mentioned yesterday, I am currently in the throes of preparing for my A-Exam.  At Cornell, this entails the potential PhD candidate presenting their thesis topic and convincing the committee that they are prepared to undertake the quest entailed in the topic.  What’s weird about it is that the... [Read More]