Like the Elizabethan Merchants of Light, my work is to track down, contexualize and share unusual cultural, scientific, technological wares (even occasional genius) & tools from many varied worlds, for your pleasure and profitable use.

I speak, research, tinker, teach on evolving systems.
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Let's build a *#!!% Starship already!

Let’s build a *#!!% Starship already!

Cranking the limits is The 100 Year Starship, a jointly funded project of DARPA (the good folks who birthed the Internet) and NASA. It's a call to our collective ingenuity and utterly bonkers audacity: interstellar flight!
Go Follow Yourself

Go Follow Yourself

It’s been going on quietly for years; the brains and bodies of nerds and athletes have been coupled to all manner of sensors and data-netting gizmos (voluntarily and without medical intervention) from heart-rate monitors, biofeedback fingerware, sleep trackers, wearable cameras, oximeters, accelerometers, blood-pressure cuffs, GPS to old-fashioned stopwatches employed to track and map the data...