Harris: Drone Tracking

In an exclusive for The Guardian, Mark Harris explores a problem that has the Federal Aviation Administration “panicking, just a little bit.” Drones clutter our airspace, with more expected as the unmanned minicopters are deployed for deliveries and other...

Tompa: Making Time

Rachel Tompa’s piece in Hutch News mixes marijuana, suspended animation, and musings on the nature of time—all covered in Dr. Mark Roth’s Fred Hutch talk to an admittedly stoned but highly engaged audience. The lecture that @Rachel_Tompa covered was part...

Gibbs: Better Than Star Wars

Wayt Gibbs, contributing editor to Scientific American, kicks off a special physics and astronomy issue that has stories on time travel, the origin of the universe, and human intelligence. Wayt (@WaytGibbs) will blow you away with his own piece on two invisible black...

James: Science on the Screen

Think sci-fi is all fi, no sci? Sally James shows that actually, fictional shows and films like “The Martian,” “Ant-Man,” and “Frozen,” can be fun and accurate. Go behind the scenes in Sally’s story for the Alaska Airlines...

Gordon and Lindley: Speaking of Sasquatch

Two great NSWAnians, Robin Lindley and former NSWA Board Member David George Gordon, had a conversation and we get to listen in. For Crosscut, Robin talked with David @thebugchef about legends, hiking, and his new book, The Sasquatch Seeker’s Field Manual: Using...