In WIRED: “Yuri Milner and the Fellowship of Silicon Valley Science Influencers”
I am quoted in this article on the funding behind the Breakthrough Initiatives and other Silicon Valley funded science. The author of the article, Sarah Scoles, has also written a book (which is on my...
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Monuments to Wonder
Aimed toward the sky – these radio telescopes look up into space. Listening, collecting, as monuments to wonder. Where are they aimed, what are they listening to, looking at, receiving? Considered as a...
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Magnetospheric Reflections
After they were launched into space tonight, four Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft are in Earth’s orbit preparing to study how the protective magnetic fields around the Earth sometimes...
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Exploring Extraterrestrial Oceans Here on Earth
NASA has announced that observations from the Hubble telescope suggest there is a vast underground ocean on Jupiter’s moon Ganymede, which is also the largest moon in our solar system: “Scientists...
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Path to Mars: Building an Island of the Future
What does Newfoundland have in common with the challenges of building a human settlement on Mars? They are both isolated places with harsh landscapes facing challenges in the areas of energy,...
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Installations of Meaning: Sculptural Discourses in Site/Scale Suspensions
This post is the seed of a paper I am writing about a way to think with meaning across sites and scales. My thinking here is influenced by encounters of many kinds with great thinkers such as Avital...
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The Huygens DISR: An Astonishing & Musical Data Visualization
From the title of the video you would never know this is one of the most visually captivating and melodious presentations of space probe data you may ever see. The video (from Erich Karkoschka,...
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Neal Stephenson signs on as Magic Leap’s Chief Futurist
Neal Stephenson has signed on as Magic Leap’s Chief Futurist. He describes why in a post on their blog. In this excerpt he describes the technology in a way that sounds like there is no device worn by...
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Telexploration, OnSight, and HoloLens “on” Mars
With the announcement of the Microsoft HoloLens project, it’s become clear that NASA is working with Microsoft on developing this technology for use in “telexploration.” Jeff Norris, who works for...
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Open MIND: 39 papers on mind, consciousness, and cognition
I came across this collection of papers and responses on the mind, edited by Thomas Metzinger and Jennifer M. Windt, via a twitter post by Andreas Roepstorff, Professor at Aarhus University. From the...
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Obama and Space Settlement: 2015 SOTU
I wonder if this is the first mention of space settlement in a US president’s State of the Union address? “I want Americans to win the race for the kinds of discoveries that unleash new jobs —...
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Two Approaches to ‘Space Junk': “Cultural Heritage of Space...
NASA has an Orbital Debris Program Office dedicated to the question of space debris. The featured image for this post comes from this office, and is an image of debris in LEO. LEO “stands for low Earth...
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Xenolinguistics, SETI, and Pre-Colonial Anthropology
I just finished re-reading Ursula K. LeGuin’s The Word for World Is Forest (1976) in an old well-read family copy with the same cover illustration as the original first edition. The book, part of what...
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The Goldilocks Theory
“It’s a world not too big, not too small. It’s just right.” -Stu Spath, Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company I frequently come across the ‘Goldilocks’ analogy in popular reporting on space science....
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Word of the Year “Because X”
The American Dialect Society voted yesterday on their latest word of the year. It is: Because X, as in “Why? Because Linguistics.” 20 years ago the word(s) of the year (a tie) were: cyber and morph....
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The Social Life of Plants, In Space
With almost 39,000 followers, NASA Astronaut Mike Hopkins has an active social community on Twitter. He posts photos from the International Space Station, where he currently lives. The images in his...
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Cyber-Techniques of the Body & the “Looq”
At the American Anthropological Association (AAA) meeting in Chicago, I presented a paper in the panel “Bridging Digital and Physical Publics: Digital Anthropologist’s current engagements with 21st...
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Challenging the Idea that Space and Time are Fundamental Constituents of Nature
A recent article in Quanta Magazine, which has been circulating around the internet through social media, reviews recent challenges to the idea that space and time are “fundamental components of...
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Android Theater & The Uncanny Valley
Last night, during the ‘blizzard,’ I went to the Japan Society to see the first play featuring an android actor. The Seinendan Theater Company and Osaka University Robot Theater Project are currently...
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Anthropology in “Star Trek: The Next Generation”
Anthropologists who like Sci-Fi often list Stargate and Star Trek as among their favorite television series. In my view some of the finest Anthropology focused episodes can be found in the seven...
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