Coming up, I’m starting a new, six-part series about what I wish people knew about engineers. This is inspired by assumptions I’ve encountered at conventions, committees, church, and anywhere else I’ve spent time interacting with non-engineers; there are a plethora…
I feel as if I were destined to cosplay. It started with dress-up, of course: a spare hamper of Mom’s castoffs and old Halloween costumes, set aside for play time. Perhaps it’s meant to indoctrinate young girls into a culture…
At the end of September, the New York Times posted an article on 27 Ways to be a Modern Man, which was widely ridiculed. Since we’re in the new millennium, it requires a complement on ways to be a modern…
-Views are my own and are not endorsed by present or past employers or affiliates.- Possible calamities on Earth aren’t the only compelling reason to colonize. Space exploration develops a lot of astoundingly useful technology out of necessity for survival in…