Speculative Nonfiction

The most interesting thing to ponder is the Odysseus and Antinous dichtomy and how it applies to modern organizational psychology. There a...

With the release of Jackass 5, it's time for a look back. I don't even remember why, in that distant early age of 2002, I even went...

The closer the Great Filter is to us (in terms of developmental stage) the more nervous we should be. If it's past us, we're doomed...

(Full disclosure: I know these guys and have sent reviews directly to them previously. This time I told them I'd post it on my blog, s...

NASA has announced that Curiosity and Perseverance have found the strongest-yet evidence of life on Mars: vivianite and greigite. On Ear...

Spoilers included. I had heard of this book years ago: a not quite alternate history of late medieval Europe. Its strong points come dow...

My friend (the one with the metal golf cart) is a son of a bitch and meets more certified metal gods while golfing than I ever have backstag...

In fiction, people write about things that interest them. This is a trivial observation, but there's more to it than that. Why make up...

We're more likely to find artifacts from technology-using aliens - self-reproducing (von Neumann) probes - rather than the aliens themse...

(Contains novel spoilers, Lynch movie spoilers, but not Villeneuve movie spoilers.) Dune has a lot of very loyal readers who rightly under...