Constellations: What is that, an egg timer? Oh, no it’s a dude. | Photo: theilr, CC BY-SA 2.0 This is just a quick reminder to everybody that constellations don’t affect your personality traits or lives, […]
Tesla’s Model 3 | Image: Tesla Meet the Bolt Not to be confused with the Chevy Volt, the Chevy Bolt (really guys? you need to work on your branding) will be a fully-electric vehicle with […]
No, not even Ann Coulter | Photo: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0 One morning last week, I woke up to a message from my friend L. L: “I just felt sympathy for Ann Coulter…” Me: […]
Photo: Tomáš Moravec Because I’m travelling this week, I thought I’d just do a little Throwback Thursday to when artist Tomáš Moravec rode the rails in Bratislava with a basic shipping pallet and some basic wheels. […]
Dear Mr. Chibnall, I know Peter Capaldi’s not leaving as the Doctor any time soon, and we all love him for it, but you see, the Great British Bake Off is moving to Channel 4, […]
Image: Blue Origin The news spread yesterday like wildfire: Jeff Bezos has announced in an e-mail that his suborbital spaceflight company, Blue Origin, has a roadmap for going orbital. The new generation of rockets will […]
Can’t you see it? | Images: (left) Tim Pearce, CC BY 2.0, (right) fogcat5, CC BY-SA 2.0 Every now and then, I come across something so rare, so beautiful, so crystalline in its idiocy, that […]
T-minus zero | Image: NASA Kennedy, CC BY-SA 2.0 OSIRIS-REx Launches! Roll on, 2018: OSIRIS-REx is heading for Bennu! Thursday evening, a ULA Atlas V with a peculiar-yet-effective single solid booster rocket climbed out of Earth’s gravity well […]
Dear Lena… | Image: Gabriël Metsu, CC0 (Public Domain) [Author’s note: I wrote this right after the brouhaha in question. Internet culture being what it is, it’s already Old News to most people, but I thought […]
By the time I was old enough to watch Star Trek, it had already been consigned to — and then rescued from — the dustbin of television history. Fifteen years off the air, it had […]