Speculative Nonfiction

Hey Great Filter/SIA/Fermi Paradox chatterati: if you consider this an important question, here's your chance to put your money where y...

You might catch a cold! From the mugshots section of The Smoking Gun .

Appropriate, after a previous discussion of Dave Mustaine's Christianity , the following was an April Fool's joke but it would'v...

Above: Splendid Wisdom. I mean Trantor. I mean, Corusant? Credit Slawek Wojtowicz . May I recommend that if you're an Asimov fan, ...

Let's say we wake up tomorrow, and deer are on average slightly smarter than humans. Would the world become better or worse for most hu...

The following is definitely one of the more approachable Sigh pieces, which I post here in the hopes that more people will help them "s...

The idea that there will be a technological singularity relies on the development of self-replicating technology that is able to improve its...

Recently Boing Boing reported that Bahrainis were feeling "triumphant, warlike, metal" based on their top download, Fates Warning...

It's really odd. You should read about it and look at the rest of the pictures .

If you don't read this blog for metal, you'll want to skip this one. If you do, gather round, and listen to tales of yore by your m...

By obsoleting the lawyers first , Skynet has bought itself a special place in our hearts. Who can be mad at the cuddly supercomputer as it ...

Make sure you've taken your ayahuasca before you click play, or you will be injured. I admire how Meshuggah seems to have made consc...

I don't know if I'll be able to put up with everyone acting surprised when Russia and/or Europe and/or China beat the U.S. to a mann...

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Note: I wrote this post a few weeks before the earthquake in Japan. The last Philip K. Dick work I read was a short story collection I bou...

...and and make As I Lay Dying the first dean. When I hear this, I want to destroy the whole universe and end all life, i.e. it makes me ha...

Blade Runner is the best movie of all time. If you want to argue that point, you are fundamentally flawed, cognitively and morally. I'...

The Ritual followed the early 90s trend anticipated by Metallica of a mainstream thrash-to-rock transition; who knows if there was "som...

I'm on record as saying we will probably find evidence of life in the form of replicator chemistry (more common parlance, von Neumann pr...

Although they take different forms than those to which he is accustomed... and so does he. What is "real"?