Wednesday, April 11th, 2012
There’s a letter being widely posted on conservative blogs: March 28, 2012 The Honorable Charles Bolden, Jr. NASA Administrator NASA Headquarters Washington, D.C. 20546-0001 Dear Charlie, We, the undersigned, respectfully request that NASA and the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) refrain from including unproven remarks in public releases and websites. We believe the claims […]
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Wednesday, December 15th, 2010
By monster, I’m talking generally about non-human, non-supernatural creatures that want to kill you and/or eat you, so this excludes vampires, werewolves, Freddy Kruger, and the like. I’m really biased toward giant monsters, or alien creatures from under the water or from outer space, although it’s hard to draw the line on these. By modern, […]
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Friday, September 24th, 2010
Apparently Margaret Atwood, the author of the Handmaid’s Tale and Oryx and Crake, doesn’t believe that men walked on the moon. Maybe it’s worse than that — she’s trying to hedge her bets because she’s a “smart” person who knows being skeptical about this is idiotic and doesn’t want to admit to herself that she’s […]
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Sunday, August 22nd, 2010
I saw this person, Sharon Lamb, being interviewed on CNN or MSNBC last week. This article, “Superheroes send out ‘wrong message’ to boys,” covers the same things she said on tv. For instance: “There is a big difference in the movie superhero of today and the comic book superhero of yesterday,” Dr Lamb told the […]
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Thursday, June 25th, 2009
I’ve been involved in a few discussions recently where some instances of really dumb things in science fiction movies came up. I’m not talking science here so much (my usual issue to harp on) as just things that are so astoundingly dumb you got to wonder what people were thinking, or if they were thinking […]
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Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
In many important ways, science fiction rules the world, but is regularly dismissed by the public at large. I’m going to use an expansive definition of science fiction, as opposed to my usually more rigid definition that demands some adherence to science, and open this up to speculative fiction in general and nearly all novel, […]
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Saturday, December 20th, 2008
OK, I’m going to go after a biology story today that I found particularly poor. The Perfect Mate: What We Really Want, by Meredith F. Small, apparently an anthropologist at Cornell, somehow, according the bio. First she opens with something of strawman argument, simplifying a position she’s both going to support and contradict in the […]
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Friday, September 5th, 2008
First off, I love science fiction, but when it’s bad, oh boy, there’s little worse. As a writer and scientist, I’m probably more sensitive to some of the bad things than the average person, but there are plenty of things that happen too often that we can probably agree to share for a good two-minute […]
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