Recommended Readin'
by Jeff Patterson on 05/15/12Brian Switek at Smithsonian wants the media to leave dinosaurs alone. Luis Fernandez Carill at The Space Review looks at the changing perception of the risk of near Earth objects. Centauri Dreams discusses the recent plan to build the Enterprise (which, when you think about it, is the ultimate copyright violation). George Dvorsky considers the question is death bad for you?
On The Air Redux
by Jeff Patterson on 05/15/12Myself and the illustrious Paul Weimer are guests on the latest episode of the Functional Nerds Podcast to discuss all things Marvel.
Things to Ponder
by Jeff Patterson on 05/14/12Is the Goldbach Conjecture closer to solved? Dark matter hits humans once per minute. Some infinities are bigger than others.
On The Air
by Jeff Patterson on 05/14/12On the latest episode of the Hugo Award nominated SF Signal Podcast we discuss eBook pricing.
Assorted Items
by Jeff Patterson on 05/10/12Blastr gives us 11 great science fiction and fantasy nurses. The guy who wants to build a functioning Enterprise obviously didn't read this. Here's a collection of real-life Mobius shapes. And the headline reads "Robots in restaurant outnumber humans."
On Land
by Jeff Patterson on 05/08/12Dark Roasted Blend gives us the strangest tanks in history. That's as good a reason as any to revisit Tales of Future Past's gallery about Future War. And while we're here lets remember Ark II, the Landmaster from Damnation Alley (which were NOT the same vehicle), the futuresexy Terranaut, and the awesome Maximog.
In Space
by Jeff Patterson on 05/08/12The Space Review looks at approaching space exploration on multiple fronts. Hubble is going to test the technique of using the Moon as a mirror during the transit of Venus next month. Stars are born inside a "dead" galaxy.
Crawling from the Trekkage
by Jeff Patterson on 05/01/12Transhumanist (and friend of Gravity Lens) George Dvorsky is guest-blogging at io9 this week. Today he explains why Star Trek's vision of the future is out of date.
It Is May
by Jeff Patterson on 05/01/12
The Goddess of the Month is Gwenhwyfar, The Cloud Who Would be Queen.
The Molecule of the Month is good ol' Carbon Dioxide.
