Research at a snail's pace

Every now and then I get a bit of a creative "itch" that needs scratching. I was strolling through the hardware store last month a...

There are some pretty awesome pictures of me giving my talk about sand to the kids attending TED Youth in New Orleans a few weeks ago. I...

Inertia. I has it. You has it. A drop of water has it. If, say the floor were to suddenly drop out from under you, it would take time for yo...

If you're interested in seeing what I had to say - or what any of the other speakers talked about, go on over to the TED Youth stre...

Wow, what a weekend. It started with me getting a really bad head cold in the middle of last week. I stayed home Wednesday and Thursday in p...

I just set up this photo as part of my talk about sand. One of my friends said that this was a very "meta and recursive" photo...