Speculative Nonfiction

The likely strangeness of any non-terrestrial replicators, along with the fact that it's likely we'll be wondering whether they...

Via Boing Boing, I saw this awesome article about what would happen if the Earth's rotation stopped. I don't mean all of a sudden ...

Not really, but this Onion article is really funny.

I'm buying an iPhone car charger and this gives me a chance to make sure it works. If you need an iPhone car charger, please feel free...

Over at Pharyngula, they're mourning a frickin octopus with words from Blade Runner . An outrage! A travesty! A truculent shambolic a...

Article here . So covering up the sun with clouds won't stop the Matrix computer guys.

It turns out though that the pen is not mightier than the sword. But it will still get you arrested.

Following up a previous thread on how the economics of space exploration is really the most important part of the story, we see the importa...

Survival Research Labs is clearly running away from me. First they're in the Bay Area. Then I move to San Francisco and they go to Pho...

Story here . I wonder whether the universities he sells the fragments to will say, "Wait a second...these are identical to the landsca...

By that I mean, I-dosing ! You can get high from mp3s! Come on, all the cool kids are doing it! I prefer to snort them, but administratio...

The science fiction writer Larry Niven supposed (at least in his fiction ) that if luck were heritable, you could breed for it. And in his ...

No whining now. Too late for that. You had your chance . And now you've done it. I'm coming over right now. To punch you. In t...

No one would believe it. Hilarious .

The Womb of True Metal(tm) that gave you Cliff Burton, Jim Martin and Machinehead has more metal to give: Cast Iron Crow . If you don...

Maybe by the Tevatron in Illinois, USA. But this rumor went around before about 2 years ago, so we'll see.

Per Wikipedia, the first person to be frozen for revival in a future age was James Bedford in 1967 , who died from cancer. An outsider with...

Remember when Judas Priest was putting backwards messages in songs to make kids kill themselves? Never mind that it would never work becaus...

The Coen Brothers rock because they set movies in unique parts of the U.S. and try to portray local accent and culture. There are lots of i...

I'm glad that Alex Tabarrok at Marginal Revolution posted the Hendrix Star Spangled Banner solo from Woodstock because I'd never act...