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Lies by Design

  I wrote an essay for the most recent issue of Pacific Standard in which I investigate the extent to which modern technology deceives us. In some of these deceptions we play an active role. I’m thinking, in particular, of placebo buttons … Continue reading

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Arriving Mars

Tomorrow evening, we go into the dome. Check out my first post on Discover about the mission: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/fieldnotes/?p=9#.UWtwhSt4aqw I’ll be blogging a bit for The Economist as well as Discover. During the mission, all my posts will be available on hi-seas.org. … Continue reading

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HI-SEAS on the TED Blog

Today the TED blog highlighted the HI-SEAS mission and our crew commander (and TED fellow) Angelo Vermeulen. Here’s an excerpt of the Q&A: What will the HI-SEAS simulation be investigating and teaching us? The Mars simulation we’re setting up is … Continue reading

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