I am Chris K. N.

We’re coming up on that time of year, again, when we can’t agree on whether we should be celebrating Columbus or not. Much of the controversy has been debated to death, but I don’t think we’ve quite internalized, as a culture, quite what a remarkably…

Book Review: End Times by Peter Turchin. An ambitious, but not exactly optimistic, take on history, current events, and our near future. Read it on Medium

At most busy airports I’ve been to, traffic outside of Arrivals is pure chaos. That seems like an entirely avoidable failure of planning and architecture, and a fixable problem. I’ve travelled far less than many people, but have visited enough large, busy airports to notice…

I’ve been thinking a lot about holidays lately, and about how to make them enjoyable and sticky — and now how to apply that to Election Day. Read it on Medium → 

The brilliant physicist Enrico Fermi famously wondered: With billions of Earth-like planets orbiting billions of Sun-like stars for billions of years, the galaxy should be teeming with life. So …where is everyone? Read it on Medium →