Blog

Apr 12 2026

hank green on the artemis ii photos

NASA’s Artemis II mission brought us some of the most astounding images of the moon ever captured. Hank Green explains it better than I ever could.

Apr 6 2026

x-men re-examined: the phalanx covenant

Season 5 starts strong, with a fun, suspenseful story and an absolutely wild trip to the gym.

Mar 31 2026

x-men re-examined: season four awards

A lightning round of the highs and lows of season four.

Mar 29 2026

x-men re-examined: beyond good and evil

The would-be series finale couldn’t recover from its own rewrites. Here’s a gazillion words about it.

Publications

I am an author of 22 scientific publications, 15 white papers, 3 popular press articles, and 32 conference presentations. Here’s my favorite.

The latest is:

Humanizing AI in Education: A Readability Comparison of LLM and Human-Created Educational Content PDF DOI

Rashid, M. M., Atilgan, N., Dobres, J., Day, S., Penkova, V., Küçük, M., Clapp, S. R., & Sawyer, B. D., Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 68(1)

Contact

I’d love to hear from you. Email is best. StackOverflow is a favorite haunt. ResearchGate has all my science. And I sometimes check LinkedIn.