Speculative Nonfiction

As noted in title of post. Thanks for reading. Until then, remember, there are three awesome things: metal, science fiction, and space st...

In fact I am listening to it currently, but I have been told by certain individuals - hypothetically, members of Cast Iron Crow - not to di...

Caenorhabditis elegans is a roundworm which has exactly 302 neurons. For this reason it is used as a simple model for neuroscience. Simpl...

1) Cooking: Epic Meal Time! Next level breakfast maneuver: 2) New definition - sociopathos : the mixture of glee and contempt you feel...

Baby born after 20 years frozen as embryo . (More descriptive, but less fun than the post title I chose.) 1) There are probably not enoug...

Remember that scene in the Matrix, where Special Agent Smith is having dinner (in our simulated world) with eventual sell-out Joe Pantoliano...

Where can I get a copy of this movie? It's not on Netflix. I remembered watching it as a little kid and laughing at it even then.

I don't think this was on Youtube before. This version has the full song by Animetal. The band looks like if KISS and Voltron had chil...

Alligators bellow when they're mating. I've never heard this in person but want to. Look at how the water above their backs vibrat...

I finally saw Chaco Canyon in New Mexico yesterday ( pictures here ). One of the main complexes is called Chetro Ketl. I don't know wh...

When I thought of that I had to use it as the title of a post. Holiday Seasons in the Abyss! Clearly the Middle Eastern theme of the video...

In discussions of filters and Fermi paradoxes, questions are often asked with the word "civilization". Why, we wonder, do we not ...

PADUCAH, KY - Area woman Susan Tyson got more than she bargained for when the distracted mother of three accidentally set her microwave on ...

Here's Megadeth with then-member Kerry King, at the Stone in San Francisco in 1984. I have heard tell of this legendary show, often fro...

I once had the privilege of attending a middle school science fair at a somewhat rough California public school. The displays were in the u...

A few weeks ago I was going through and digitizing my remaining cassette collection* and realized I still had Extraction from Morality , by ...

... is good . Firsthand reports from a discriminating Japanese liker of Yamato confirm it's a solid flick. U.S. release! Come on, mar...

Guess who. Of note: having recently completed the histology portion of my preclinical med school education, I was disappointed that we did...

I ran across this bit at Agent Intellect when looking for (of all things) a post about religion and psychoanalysis. In it the author notes...

Reader Matt K. notes that when he was recently searching for a picture of Derek Wildstar aka Kodai (if you believe the nonsense that Star Bl...