Hidden Doorways a Reality?

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This is pretty much exactly what would happen if William Shatner came ’round to tea at the Prime residence.
So I realized today that [...]

Why “Terminator Vision” is Inaccurate Terminology

This is one of the possible results of congress enacting the Terminators as Secret Service Agents Act. The world could use fewer jerks.
I found this article on BBC today. Augmented Reality (AR) is a pretty sweet concept. The technology looks very cool, totally validating years of cyberpunk fiction. But there’s a problem [...]

On Rescuing Reporters and Accurate Language in Astronomy

I imagine the recent negotiations to have gone something like this. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that I like to imagine that Uncle Bill threatened Kim Jong Il with a Roman spatha.
I for one am glad that Bill Clinton gets a little attention. He gets to be the goddamned hero [...]

Scientia Pro Publica #9

New edition of Scientia Pro Publica up. It’s looking great this week. Read it or miss out on very interesting things.

Why sexual reproduction is so popular

There are organisms that reproduce sexually and there are organisms that reproduce asexually. The former outnumber the latter by many orders of magnitude. Hell, even plants have sex on a pretty regular basis–though it’s a sort of kinky, bee-assisted sex. The question is why? Asexual reproduction is far more efficient than [...]