My “Worked Physics Homework Problems” book now stands at 372 pages. If you ever wonder what I do instead of meeting people.

• Things That Cost More Than Space Exploration
• Population genetics on islands connected by an arbitrary network: An analytic approach
• “never, ever, trust Ross Douthat when he tells you what “the left” is thinking”
• “Kentucky marriage policy will now be dictated from places like Boston and San Francisco.” Don’t worry; we Bostonians will be gentle.
• “The “exceptional men” doing shots of Maker and grinding on anonymous girls at house parties are not always looking for a wife.”
• Let’s do the gender-relations time warp again
• Termite-inspired robots on the cover of Science
• Continuous-time models of group selection, and the dynamical insufficiency of kin selection models
• Higher-order structure and epidemic dynamics in clustered networks
• A Bayesian Characterization of Relative Entropy
• Tea Party’s fringe isolation: How a conspiracist mind-set poses long-term electoral danger
• 9th December 1961: The Beatles play to 18 people in Aldershot
• Self-published ebooks: the surprising data from Amazon
• Reply to comments on “Weak value amplification is suboptimal for estimation and detection” – I love the “Of course, we are not the resource counting police” part.
• In which once again Richard Dawkins makes people go “wha??”
• Mistakes are Interesting
• “the idea of a single effective population that can be used to describe different aspects of the behavior of a population does not work”
• Exact Markovian SIR and SIS epidemics on networks and an upper bound for the epidemic threshold
• “Yeah, but it’s a non-violent game, which is why it seems so weird to us.”