Adventures in SF Parenting: From Stern to STEM
One big benefit of opening a toy store is that when my kids arrive there after school, we are all stuck in the same space together and for the first time in YEARS, I get to help them with their homework! “Years?! What a horrible mother! You should have been supervising them THIS WHOLE TIME!” […]
Guest Post: Getting Rid of the Evidence by Lincoln Crisler
Whether you’re a mercenary in a dystopian future, a hardcore serial killer or the reconnaissance unit of the King’s Army, bodies are a fact of existence. Corpses are a pain in the ass, though. You can’t just leave them lying around. They tend to attract attention. They stink. Worst of all, they may hold incriminating […]
Nature Magazine: No Humans Allowed (Plus a Question For Listeners)
Have you heard? NPG, the folks behind Nature, the scientific journal, have banned Homo sapiens from submitting to their magazine: To the dismay of many (yet to the delight of a few), Nature Publishing Group announced today that its flagship journal, Nature, will no longer accept submissions from humans (Homo sapiens). The new policy, which […]
Aliens: Will They Come For Us (in the Dark)?
If you haven’t been paying attention to science lately, then you might have missed out on a lot of talk about why aliens might visit us. Not to say hello and give us warp drives and all that fun stuff. No. They’ll show up to get rid of us, because we’re too dangerous to exist […]
Feed the Machine: Cyclops Power
Read this article before proceeding. Growing up, I didn’t read comics, but that doesn’t mean I was unaware of comics. I knew the rudimentary figures of comic book lore. My favorite superhero, however, was Cyclops. How cool would it be to shoot laser beams out of your eyes! Getting into the genres more, laser beam […]
Feed the Machine: Viral Time
Welcome to Feed the Machine, my weekly column for this ne’er-too-oft visited corner of the Interweb. Here, I take a science article and twist it to make science fictional ideas that you all can have, free of charge. For the first installment, read this article called “Viral Time” by Carl Zimmer on the Long Now […]
