SF/F Links: February Roundup Part One
Lots and lots of links heading your way. This has been a busy last couple weeks for sure. I’ve had essays up the you know where and a midterm, which I pray that I did good on. In any case, I’ve found lots of interesting things to share and that’s exactly what intend to do: […]
Your Limbs Are Belong to Us: SF’s Future
Long long ago in a place somewhat similar to today, with technology not quite like it is now, but with minds exploring the unimaginable bounds of space, human intelligence, and technology itself, someone came up with the brilliant idea of ‘robotic’ prosthetic limbs. Probably the iconic example is Luke Skywalker, who loses his hand in […]
Hubble and the Space Program
I was reading this article at Universe Today and felt it necessary to comment on the state of the space program in this country. I have concerns, you see, and they are legit concerns. Or so I think.The article talks about the repairs that will be done on Hubble in a way that sounds as […]
SF/F Links: January 2008 Roundup
This is what happens when you have a lot of blogs to watch and a lot of time on your hands to click the stumble button: you find a lot of interesting new articles! So here they are: Wil McCarthy’s Science Wiktion: an experimental collaborative writing project. Essentially he has become busy with a nanotech […]
U.S. Space Program is 50
That’s right, our glorious, slowly dying space program is officially 50 years old today. I think it’s cause for some celebration. As such, I’m officially holding a “Yay, our SP is 50” party over Superbowl. Who’s with me? On a side note, here is a New Scientist article on this very subject, though they’re not […]
Edelman’s Moral Quandaries (Pt. 5)–G.S.A.G.H.R.
The acronym stands for: Getting Serious About Global Human Rights. The United States pays a lot of lip service to the idea of global human rights — and compared to much of the rest of the world, we’re willing to do something about it more of the time — but too often we back down […]