Speculative Nonfiction

Megatron thinks the terms of agreement on his updates are a little coercive. NB this update turned him into Leonard Nimoy. IMO that...

Imagine if Chuck Schuldiner had joined Carcass and Ken Owen's replacement was Tomas Haake from Meshuggah (or maybe one of the boys from ...

Check out this post at author Marshall Maresca's blog about conlangs and the merits of fully elaborating one in the interest of complet...

A visualization of the distribution of matter in the universe very soon after the Big Bang - The Bolshoi Simulation (via Vorjack at Unreason...

I now have Vinge points,* and you don't. Below: during the discussion. I was thrilled to meet and briefly talk with the good profe...

If you ever wondered why Alice in Chains didn't do more memorable riffs and thirds a la Maiden and Euro-infused styles of metal, you c...

Joshua Bell played his violin as a panhandler in a metro station in Washington D.C. Interesting, because Bell is considered one of the grea...

Check out Nomad 927 , a San Diego experimental band. If you think of a very well thought-out Pelican with vocals, you'd be close. As c...

If there's any single person that embodies Berkeley, California it's this guy.

Here's Rova Quartet's website. While I'm posting classical saxophone stuff I might as well put a link to a Debussy piece for...

...and below is where to meet them. Moving here from San Francisco 2 years ago, I've often complained that San Diego culture isn't ...

This is more clever than you'd think. It's also a smart idea to expand your audience, because when you're genre-shifting like t...

People in the planetary science groups at UC Berkeley and U. Hawaii produced this paper, which models possible instabilities in the climates...

Kagan et al demonstrated last year that myeloperoxidase (which clinical types will recognize as an oxidative defense against certain bacteri...

I especially like the huge ancient-Rome-sounding perfect fifths they did for the bridge section. H/T to my fellow UCSD SOM Class of 2014 me...

Cast Iron Crow is planning a tour supporting their debut album (First Edition) to Southern California in November. Venue suggestions for S...

Older records on average did better in BNR's death metal tournament . The average age of the releases in each round increased as the to...

This lecture by CMU Prof Jesse Schell should be retitled "How Our Worst Cognitive Weaknesses Are Exploited For Money By Video Game Make...

I think that phrase is even darker and more nihilistic than Gordon Gecko would have uttered , but this Slate article makes that dubious cla...