The More You Know™
While I’m watching an artificial (but completely real and frightening) crisis unfold, I started thinking about another real and frightening crisis of our own making, and about the fact that many of the...
View ArticleNot Everything Revolves Around You
I fought off an insane film crew while I was in grad school. My story is on the Story Collider podcast this week: That was one of the more surreal experiences of my life. If you’re not already familiar...
View ArticleWeak Forms and Strong Forms
For Cameron Neylon, because he kept asking me for this… The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis1 states that language affects thought — how we speak influences how we think. Or, at least, that’s one form of the...
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I’ve been tremendously lucky to have the opportunity to work with BBC Earth and Pomona Pictures over the past few months, creating a series of animated videos to explain ideas in physics, astronomy,...
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