A Commonplace Book

Scrooge was rich, and a man of business. What was his business? How did he get so rich? Our first clue comes in the first paragraph: ...

So, just in time for the holiday, I read another libertarian essay on why the unredeemed Ebenezer Scrooge wasn't so bad: So, why is ...

During the first week in December: On December 1, NASA's Dawn spacecraft captured an image of Cere s. It does not yet rival images fro...

It was excellent, but flawed. I was glad I saw it in a theatre, in IMAX. It was one of a small class of excellent science fiction movies w...

I think it is helpful to think of mapping Science Fiction in three dimensions. The first is science truth. At one extreme, all of the scie...

Buck Rogers is put into suspended animation after being overcome by a mysterious gas while exploring a mineshaft/being frozen after crashing...

Wanderers - a short film by Erik Wernquist . A CGI video, with narration written and spoken by the late Carl Sagan. Here is  a gallery ...

There are two kinds of technology that would make space exploration easier. The first will come without government support. Anyone that fi...

So, we landed on a comet. What do we do for an encore? Well, eventually we land on another comet, and do it even better.  But it will tak...

So this week, humans landed a robot on a comet. And when I say landed, I mean we bounced it off the comet twice, until it came to rest. ...