Randall Munroe’s “Good Question” column in the New York Times is in the vein of his How To and What If books, in which he answers weird science questions with equally weird...
Mitch Wagner writes, “Talented and prolific science fiction writer and editor Mike Resnick, who has written extensively over the course of a long career about colonialism and...
Robert Skidelsky is an eccentric British economist: trained at Oxford, author of a definitive three-volume biography of Keynes, a Lord who sat with the Tories as their...
Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy is a marvellous interdisciplinary research center, and it is advertising for “visitors” for one-year stints: postdocs,...
John M Ford — AKA Mike Ford — (previously) was a spectacular and varied science fiction writer who performed brilliantly across a wide range of genres and formats, from RPGs...
A beginner-friendly list of herbs for immunity.
This is a silver-backed chevrotain, aka “mouse-deer,” from Vietnam. Until this and other camera trap photographs were taken in the last two years, no scientific evidence of...
The UK charity Sense About Science (previously) has announced the winners of its 2019 John Maddox Prize for Standing up for Science:forest fire expert Bambang Hero Saharjo and...