Exploring bleeding edge experiments, oddities, new and bizarre dicoveries, and fact-checking conspiracy theories since 2008. No question is out of bounds and no topic is too strange for a deep dive.
# oddities
Science fiction has been a vehicle for humanity exploring its deepest fears and highest aspirations. But to gatekeepers of the film world, sci-fi is always nothing more than pulpy shlock.
# oddities
Futurama might have an unorthodox but workable solution to solving the woes of global warming. Minus the flaming robot farts, of course.
# oddities
Part two of the sci-fi experiment featuring a space opera built around this blog's favorite themes...
# science
Avatar is an accidental tale of Singularitarian transhumanism with an environmentalist twist.
# oddities
A sci-fi experiment incorporating some of this blog's favorite themes...
# oddities
If sci-fi says more about our hopes and fears than about the future, what sort of sci-fi would our prehistoric ancestors produce?
# astrobiology
Unfortunately, District 9 seems like a realistic look at how we'd treat an alien species that can't really defend itself from us.
# science
Unfortunately, some of the most popular sci-fi weapons are only impressive because they sound cool...
# science
You probably don't want Scotty to beam you up. Whatever he assembles on the other end won't be you.
# tech
If you're planning to download your brain into a computer, you may want to reconsider.