- Getting a spacecraft to travel several dozen million miles, and start orbiting a small space rock in a one-mile radius is no mean feat
- This one house in LA connects movies as far apart as House on haunted hill, Blade runner, and Game of thrones
- Modelling (using Clojure) and milling a wooden toy
- If you care, something about rodent languages (yes)
- In the unsurprising news of the month: Most of the internet is fake
- On that theme, I’m not alone in despairing about big data; Yuval Noah Harari does too
- This one is from the “weird medical stuff” genre
- This one is in our cheer you up genre: “Penguin travels every year to visit man who rescued him”
- How the Astounding magazine created most of our memorable science fiction (please click through on this one, if only to browse the old magazine covers! Incidentally, this led me to the illustration work of Elliott Dold)
- Explaining weird natural phenomena: hair ice (makes you wonder how much more is out there to be explained!)
- People who play MMORPGs really do live inside them: here’s a story about “dramatic events” inside EVE Online
- More on ‘Oumuamua
- Fungi, without our brains, without basic nervous systems, without even the vascular system that plants use, are still able to have multi-cellular signaling, somehow
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