REPOST: fashionably late to the dating game
[Original posting at the cocktail party is on a brief hiatus, but we are offering a few reruns to tide you over until the new …
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Books
the human factor
It’s that time of year when everyone’s compiling their "Top Ten" lists in every imaginable category, and science books are no exception. We here at …
a very buffy boxing day
Most folks are still recovering from the Christmas festivities, but for those of British persuasion, the holiday week continues this morning with… Boxing Day! Or, …
all the world’s a stage
Jen-Luc Piquant is going through another irritating diva phase following her Cyber-debut last night in an avant-garde performance art tribute to Dylan Stiles, the young …
slaying with science
We weren’t planning on posting again for at least a couple of days, but we just can’t let this go without a bit of commentary …
meme’s the word
In 1976, the estimable Richard Dawkins inadvertently created a monster. That’s the year he coined the term "meme". Technically, according to Wikipedia, it refers to …
spec fic: a little history
One of my favorite books, one I go back to again and again, is Robert Heinlein’s Number of the Beast. I’ve probably read it a …
spec fic: ringworlds wobble but they don’t fall down
. . . Yeah, that ring city. Books have this bad habit of talking to each other when we're not looking. Worse, they go off …
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spec fic: elevator going up
Good science magazines were few and far between in the boondocks where I grew up, so most of my early contact with new scientific ideas …
they got their mojo workin’
Following our exhausting weekend tossing large men around the mean streets of New York City, Jen-Luc Piquant and I have been recharging by catching up …