Question: Have you invented something yet?

Michael Schubert answered on 4 Oct 2024:

I don’t really do a lot of inventing in my job, unless you count inventing quasi-scientific explanations for fictional things (like starships or superheroes). What I do is more like “discovering” and maybe “tweaking.”

(When I was young, I invented a pumpkin scraper, which was a kind of sharpened spoon with some teeth on one edge. Unfortunately, once I grew up, I discovered that someone else had already invented the same thing!)