It sounded like something out of an Arthur Clarke book – this 3D printing thing. I remember seeing it late (out of touch, as I usually am) sometime this year and had a genuine “Whaaa??!” moment. The kind where you half wonder if you even heard it right because you’ve only gotten down a gulp of your morning Sumatra and it’s entirely probable that your brain’s going David Blaine on.. Read More
Cosmic cue ball and unsung heroes.
When a flaming cosmic rock lit up the skies of Murmansk a week or two ago, I got to thinking about an article I did about a year back – about the one the East coast saw and the kajillion that hit the Russian atmosphere. Then, that thought inevitably turned into “Why them more than us?” I always have disaster dreams because – well – it’s exciting. If we all.. Read More
The Event Horizon
When I worked in P.T., I’d try to help patients leave feeling better than they walked in. When I couldn’t, I’d subconsciously take their sadness home with me. Since I had a lotta pain of my own to deal with, by the day’s end I wasn’t about personal edification, talking to anyone, or helping any additional humans. My reality consisted of feeling badly when I couldn’t help someone and feeling.. Read More
Outrageous Acts of Science: Arboreal bulldozer
I’ve heard of people taking video games seriously, but…seriously? Football is just a game. And World of Warcraft (or whatever Treyarch MWXYZ is) is also just a game (a game where grown men and ten year olds alike verbally revile one another online in sweet anonymity – protected from anything other than invectives). But take an ex-football player who has settled for playing online video games after having left the.. Read More
Look what SCIENCE found! Another earth!
Goldilocks was a lucky ass bitch. All she had to do was forage for porridge and then determine which mattress to steal for her nap. Like most self-entitled American princesses, she didn’t have to worry about stuff like “Find oxygen, water, and habitable temperatures”. In that way, we’re all pretty lucky. For now. We get to breathe air. That’s a pretty big goddamned deal. But many moons from now (waves.. Read More
Neural Holiday with Captain Ash
“This is your captain speaking. Our day of armchair traveling initiates in the Maldives…” So, this place called Cocoa Island is a buncha floating water suites with private diving reefs. It looks like a dream. Yet, I’m just curious to know if I’d be as excited if they’d shown a fat old man in the photo, stumbling gracelessly through those waters with the gait of a corpulent corpse – instead.. Read More
Golden S[pi]ral – Fibonacci FTW
So, there’s this article circulating about Shane Carruth’s (Primer, Upstream Color) unfinished screenplay. It sounded pretty amazing. Well – it sounded like it would’ve been amazing – if he’d made it. The layout describes something that sounds like Avatar meets Pi. Remember “Pi”? Another film by a five-star director? No, not “Life of Pi”. I mean the Aronofsky flick. I saw that movie back when I knew even less about.. Read More
EpicGenetics: Change your DNA?
“I got it from mah mama…” Whether we’re talking about double D’s with a side of sumptuous rump or a femme Mario ‘stache paired with pustulent bacne – most people mean to reference “genetic inheritance” upon uttering this phrase. And for a long time, science has indeed shown evidence that we’re genetically indentured servants, so why bother working beyond that? But, yet again, science has to say “Maybe not…” With.. Read More
Martians and magnets and god – oh Mind!
What if I told you god was a magnet? That’s right. Magnets may do more than inspire doggy doody-direction. For those of you who see toilet time as a religious experience anyway, this logic may all fall together quite nicely. For those of you still furrowing your forehead, lemme ‘splain. Reports have come from people in the past before they died that they saw their clone (or “doppelganger”) – like.. Read More
Seismic Inspo
Earthquakes. Tornadoes. Tsunamis . They all happen. And we’re totally powerless over it. After a few recent tectonic events, there might be nervousness about our expiration date arriving sooner than anticipated. Chile had a quake. Yellowstone had one. L.A. too (nothing new. Yawn.) It might make some anxious, but the hope is that it also breaks a few of us out of the routines that keep us curmudgeon-y. Here in.. Read More