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Ergodicity Economics — Ever wondered why getting rich feels impossible? Here I break down ergodicity economics in plain language, showing how m
Why Are Men Fascinated With Big Breasts — Curious why men are so fascinated with big breasts? I trace the history from ancient art and Renaissance corsets to mode
(Wal)Nuts to You, Nutscape! — Ever seen nutscapes? Here I trace the nutscaping craze with a playful sexologist's eye, offer a sexological supposition
Some Kinds of Love — Surprising findings from my informal surveys of outlier desire. Read about objectum sexuality and object personification
Desire Paths: The Unconventional Way to Live Your life — Ever noticed the little dirt trails cutting across a lawn? In this re-share of a favorite from I Dream of FIRE I use des
Look at all this money! — Looking for a quick money mood boost? In this playful photo post I lay out real collectible U.S. banknotes for you to st
Abstinence is In — Surprising trend: more teens are choosing to wait to have sex. In this post I look at the CDC report from 2006 to 2008 a
How We See Ourselves in Our Sexual Fantasies, and What It Means — How people see themselves in sexual fantasies matters. In my study of 4,175 Americans for my book Tell Me What You Want,
Have You Ever Fantasized About Someone You Hate? — Ever wondered why you might fantasize about someone you hate? Using a survey of 4,175 Americans for my book Tell Me What
What Is Sentient Object Romance? — Curious about sentient object romance? I spoke with Chuck Tingle and read I'm Gay For My Living Billionaire Jet Plane to
What Exactly Is A Design Classic? — A tweet comparing a secure cycle parking shelter to a pig shelter kicked off a debate on what makes a design classic. I
Why Would Aliens Care About Us? — What if aliens came for our DNA, not our water? Here I question the Fermi Paradox and the sample size N=1 problem, and a
My Inner Space Child — Space posters covered my walls in the sixties, and my Inner Space Child still lights up for rockets. I tour Orbiter 2016
Could the Space Voyages in the Film and Novel "2001: A Space Odyssey" Really Happen? — Could 2001: A Space Odyssey really happen? I revisit my childhood obsession and unpack NASA Glenn papers by Stanley Boro
Picturesque imaginings — A window can blur time. In this post I wander through William Henry Fox Talbot's 1843 stay in Rouen and why he photograp
navilink.pl — Need an easy way to move waypoints and tracks from a Locosys GPS? I walk through installing and using navilink.pl, the P
Fortunes — Love seeing a new quote when you open a terminal? I've packaged a set of fortune cookies for the unix fortune program th
Mammals suck — A viral Facebook post about milk sent me down a rabbit hole. I unpack Katie Hinde milk research and milk composition res
LED Wall — A wall of 960 LEDs reacting to music. I built it for London Decompression 2015 as my first electronics project. I cover
Forecast — What if paintings looked like weather maps and constellations. I built Forecast, a long-form generative art project laun
A strange kind of physical reality — Particles as pixels collapsing into form. A long form generative art project lands on fxhash with FAB DAO, allow list dr
Coding my Handwriting — Too fiddly to code? Two months later I built a cursive handwriting generator in p5js from my own script. I walk through
Rhea From about 50,000 km — Curious what Rhea looked like during Cassini’s close flyby? In this post I unpack the 30th’s images, why the closest fra
Cassini Team Shows Some Color — A rare color view stopped me in my tracks. I walked through NASA's surprise release of Cassini color images and the Cass
Sharpest Image of The Sun as of 2002 — Sharpest image of the Sun in 2002, captured at La Palma by the Swedish Solar Telescope. I pulled this straight from APOD
The Surface of Venus Revealed — Imagine walking on Venus. I dug into original Venera images and Don P. Mitchell's reprojected data, turning Soviet Vener
A Long Amazing Stretch of Pluto — What a shock, Pluto's geology rivals the inner worlds. I still can't believe New Horizons' Pluto geology shows floating
Rosetta’s Goodbye Landing — Under 10 km above comet 67P the dust field looked alive. I processed the first Rosetta goodbye landing image to reduce n
Enter Prometheus — A close-up view of Saturn's moon Prometheus, taken with Cassini's narrow-angle camera on December 6, 2015, grabbed my at
We are Star Sand — Picture this, the Sun as a grain of sand. I walk you from 1,000 to 1,000,000 to 1,000,000,000 stars with sand mats, cube
The Moon teaches you to see Earth's Orbit — Want to see Earth's orbit in the sky using the Moon? Here I show how the half moon, especially first quarter at sunset a
The Moon is Upside Down — Ever noticed the moon looks upside down from down under? After four years living in Australia I brought back a moon post
Physical Astronomy - Definition of a New Way of Teaching — Surprising fact: the Sun does not move, we do. My Physical Astronomy method teaches astronomy to kids through movement a
Blue Moon, Dark Moon, Nose Moon, Tail Moon — Ever wondered what a Blue Moon really means, or what is a Blue Moon in simple terms? I walk through the Blue Moon defini
Feel the Earth spin — Curious why you can't feel the Earth spin? I explain how Earth's size and our inner ear hide its about 1,000 mph rotatio
Countries in the Sky — Ever wondered how your country looks projected into the sky? I created the ZenithMap to visualize national borders on th
Get closer to the Moon without leaving the Earth — Ever wondered how close you can get to the Moon without leaving the Earth? I map the exact recipe. Stand on Mt. Chimbora
Remember the planets — Trying to learn how to remember the order of the planets from the Sun? In this post I guide you through the eight planet
BARNACLES: K'WITA'A — Ever wondered how barnacles stick to rocks and ship hulls? You'll find barnacle glue decoded here, with the enzyme trick
DANCERS OF THE DEEP: JELLYFISH — A graceful ocean dancer in watercolor, long tentacles and ruffled oral arms. Through personal anecdotes I trace jellyfis
HERMIT CRAB: REAL ESTATE TYCOONS OF THE FORESHORE — Want to meet the foreshore's tiniest real estate tycoons? In this post I watch Grainyhand hermit crabs on Vancouver Isla
OWLS: MASTERS OF THE HUNT — Silent hunters of the night, owls move as if stitched into shadows. I trace their fossil record from Paleocene Ogygoptyn
CLALLAM BAY FOSSIL HEIST — Sunshine, tides and a comic fossil heist made for a memorable Clallam Bay fossil hunt with my mom. We explored the Clall
FOSSIL FISHAPODS FROM THE CANADIAN ARCTIC — What if a fishapod went back to the water? Here I tell the story of Qikiqtania wakei, a Tiktaalik relative and new entry
Do You Think You Know the Highest Waterfall in Yosemite Valley? You Could Be Wrong! — Think you know the highest waterfall in Yosemite Valley? A quick quiz shows you might be wrong. As a geology teacher I l
The Abandoned Lands — Geology explorations, field notes, photos and stories from a 2012 summer roaming the margins of the Colorado Plateau, co
The Other California: What to See When You've Run Out of Postcard Destinations — Tired of Yosemite postcards? I've been cataloging California's hidden geologic gems, from Carrizo Plains and the best Sa
Vallicella on Immortal Souls — Can an Aristotelian hylomorphic soul survive the body? Responding to my old buddy Bill Vallicella, I defend Immortal Sou
Xenophanes and natural theology — Who first argued for God by reason, not myth? In this post I make the case for Xenophanes as the founder of Pre-Socratic
Was life better in hunter-gatherer times? — Was life better in hunter-gatherer times? I compare pre-agriculture quality of life with today, examining hunter-gathere