Forty-eight years ago this week, humans left Earth’s gravity for another heavenly body. Apollo 17 launched on December 7, 1972, marking the last space mission in which humans would leave Earth orbit. For almost 50 years, we’ve been constrained to a 500-km sphere above the Earth’s surface. But today, we witnessed something that could change […]

Just over a year ago, I started this blog with a look at my cubing performance over the years. It was a fun project, but I think it’s time to broaden the scope. This time, I’m looking at every* official 3×3 solve. Data My data comes courtesy of the World Cube Association (WCA), the governing

Hello, friends! It’s been a while since I’ve posted here. In fact, it’s almost a year since my first post in October 2019. A lot has changed since then, but I’m glad that I’m making time to do this again. Here’s are some thoughts that I’ve been thinking about lately. Jesus did many miracles in

I remember once, as a child, learning the basics of subtraction. It was an exciting discovery; I now possessed the ability to undo every change I made with addition. I felt as though I had conquered the entire breadth of knowledge that mathematics had to offer. For a short time, I was the greatest mathematician

Update: 17 minutes before scheduled liftoff on the 27th, the launch was scrubbed due to weather. The next opportunity is on May 30 at 3:22:45 PM, and I’ve updated the timetables below to reflect that. When I was 12 years old, I watched the Space Shuttle Endeavour lift off on mission STS-127. It launched into

If you’ve ever been to a Disney theme park, you may have taken a trip on the “Soarin’ Over California” attraction. It’s an immersive, simulated hang gliding flight over the American West Coast. You feel the wind rush by you, your seats tilt and sway in harmony with the screen in front of you, you

On April 29, 2017, I visited the Georgia Institute of Technology for the first time. I had just heard from the school that my application was accepted, meaning I would transfer in the upcoming fall semester. My family and I visited the school with a friend who had graduated a few years prior; he was

I spent a lot of time in 2019 meditating on the resurrection of Jesus. I know of no other word in the English language that singlehandedly contains the story of the gospel – life, death, and life again. I revisit it every so often because confining the memory of Jesus’ resurrection to one Sunday a

Have you ever wondered what would happen if a spacecraft returning to Earth attempted to replace its heat shield with an equally protective layer of cheese? Have you ever pondered how much cheese would even be necessary for such a task, or what cheese would perform the best under these circumstances? Then you’ve come to

A few Sundays ago, I found myself talking to a friend at church who happens to be in seminary. She told me about her current assignment: write a funeral sermon for someone you know. It was an unusual but valuable task. How do you distill what truly mattered about a person’s life into a handful