SOCIAL
Han Solo Speaks Out: “Stop giving power to people who do not believe in science” (he should have said “accept science”…it’s NOT a faith thing)
NASA Thinking About Becoming A Billboard. (This Launch Brought to You by (some company that could care less about space exploration)
Like Your Beer? Thank a Woman for That
Our Educational System is Not Serving NeuroAtypicals Well
Are Science Popularizers Bad for Science?
West Nile Virus Spreading in NH (Amazing HQ ‘Safe’ for now)
Fashion and Body Modification (may be a bit disturbing)
Disturbing for sure: Cell Phone National Alert System can ONLY be authorized by the President
ENTERTAINMENT
Bizarre Scientifiction-Looking Film Choreography from the 30s
Freaks: Don’t say anything, just watch it
He Doesn’t Want to be Superman Any More
Even in Near Zero-G, Usain Bolt is the Fastest
Moon: The Best Bouncy House Ever
Space X to Announce Passenger for A Trip Around the Moon
Trading Card Database: A List of SF-Related Trading Card Sets
Orbit Ever After – New DUST short film
Stan Lee: Inspired by Super Heroes
Remake of The Secrets of NIMH in the works
Celebrate XMas Early with Kirk and Pike
Who Are the Greatest SF Robots of All Time?
Two New Ships Come to Star Trek Online
INDUSTRY
It’s ALL Campbell’s Fault (fan historians will have to judge which of our founding editors was more venal – Hugo “the rat” Gernsback who defined the genre, published its first magazine, started fandom but also failed to pay his writers sometimes, or John “the fascist” Campbell Jr., who borrowed Hugo’s definition, was gifted with the best budget in the field and used it to impose bigoted and misogynistic restrictions on the works he published, while also promoting bullshit science. (Harsh, but if we’re going to play the game of mining the past in order to undercut it, we may as well go in whole hog.)
SF Authors Can Relax…for Now: Writing Algorithm is not quite up to pro level…yet
But Artists May Not Be Able to Relax…
Smarter Than We Think. Anthropocentrism distorts our view of animal intelligence
TAFF Nominations Schedule Announced
Steven Barnes Awarded LASFS’ Forry Award
Escape Pod Opens for Submissions
They Had Science Fiction in the Medieval Era (No, they didn’t…they hardly even knew what “science” was….)
It’s the Golden Age of Chinese SF
Review of Liu’s Ball Lightning
A Podcast That Looks at How Science Works, or Doesn’t
A Look at Hard Science Fiction
and Another Look at Hard Science Fiction
Walter Jon Williams Predicts the Future
SCIENCE
Our Nearest Stellar Neighbor May Have a Habitable Planet After All
Root of All Languages Traced to Africa
Space X Sticks Another Landing
They’re Arguing About Pluto Again
Biology and Chemistry Will Merge
New “Oldest” Drawing by Human Discovered
41 Days Remaining on Opportunity’s Clock
A “Sound Strategy”: for Colonizing Mars
Orion’s Parachutes Work! (Good news for crew)
Binary Asteroid Holds Clues of Violent Past
We’ll Lose Some Mars if we Terraform it
Why Are Mars Volcanoes Dead and Earth’s Aren’t?
Now if they can just modify this for sewer pipes….
Leaks in Space: NASA and ROSCOSMOS not talking
Last of the Delta IIs Launches
Solar Observatory Evacuated and No One Knows Why
