Speculative Nonfiction

I mean come on. Obviously he came back in time and pretends to be a philosopher but he also admits to being an avid sailor. Sorry dude, b...

I've written before about metal as a modern war dance. We'll come back to that in a second. I was listening to Immolation's Ki...

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Tyler Cowen writes about the metal degrees earlier noted here in "How to Make the Rate of Return on Higher Education Negative". ...

With Gregory Benford, David Brin, and others. At Atkinson Hall, UCSD. More information here .

Kind of like re-watching the old Naked Gun movies where OJ is a cop. Story here . I've often said I liked As I Lay Dying Songs because...

Cast Iron Crow's Ryan Long has some openings and is offering lessons. Interested? Go here.

Wild pigs are being exterminated with drones . At least the apocalypse will have bacon.

It can't be in bad taste when the person was in Slayer.

I've posted links to her work before . So much great in this interview , including: Most of the time I write didactically, as if a shor...

The universe is not beautiful or sensible or meaningful (of course it's not) and it's totally justified being annoyed at the idiots ...

Please enjoy this postmodern text generator , in line with previous writings on Markov chains ( here , here and here ). This is sort of a ...

From this Wall Street Journal article . See, I knew there were other people out there who thought deeply about metal! I'm hurt that I ...

From Sharov and Gordon's paper Life Before Earth at arXiv. The implication is clear from the figure - that life has followed a logari...

This is cross-posted at my technology blog, The Late Enlightenment . Article here . There's a clear motivation for governments and th...

The riff that begins at 2:33 is one of their best ever and crushes my frickin brain every time I hear it. The percussion on this album was ...

I always thought this rather groovy song could be re-interpreted with ominous science fictional overtones.

I like the lasso scene.