Let me start with those TLDR for A city on Mars. It’s, essentially, 400 pages of “well, actually…,” but with…
Author: Chris Lee
One of the most unpleasant aspects of teaching is assessment. Passing judgment on people is never fun, and it’s even…
You can almost hear the indrawn breath from newsrooms around the world. Major science journalists have hidden themselves in the…
Knowledge is often viewed as a tool. We explore the natural world so we can plunder its secrets for our…
You would think that understanding something as common as ice cream would be relatively easy. But water is a different…
Quantum radar has been on the… ahem… radar for a while now. Unfortunately, the theoretical and practical results from our…
In early 2020, I wrote about my experiences of moving to online education: learning to use new tools, changing the…
If you’re anything like me, you have a set of dull kitchen knives that you can interchange the handle and…
Two-particle duality is the fundamental reality of the Universe. But we don’t see many things moving like waves. This is…
Gravity is, at heart, a mystery. Yes, we can talk about the curvature of space-time and maybe compare it with…