A Commonplace Book

Peter Leeson has a preliminary draft of his paper on the subject here.

The 2009 film is the kind of SF film that's frustratingly rare: an idea driven exploration of the human condition. It's also, like t...

Dalek Eggs . ADORABLE! ADORABLE! Plus Steampunk Dalek and the Exterminit Knit Dalek , not to mention the Voice-changing Dalek Helmet (not s...

Robert Zubrin opines : As I have argued before in the pages of this journal, NASA has over its history employed two distinct modes of opera...

Sextan Shepherd created this richly detailed steampunk underwater base in Second Life. In his spare time. Who can resist giant robot shrimp?

It's spring and the carpenter bees are out. For years my wife has called them steam bees because of their size and their slow, noisy, ...

Peeps Sushi and the 2010 Peeps Diorama Contest .

More here . The video clips are sped up by a factor of 50:1, so our robot overlords have a way to go before the singularity.

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Scholars have discovered another MS of the text in Harleian 3542, The Man that Wol . The new find includes a glossary, clearly explaining th...