Of May Updates and Comic Con

Hello, my dear readers (and new readers!). Sadly, last month, I was not able to finish the A-to-Z Blogging Challenge. I kept going, and managed to get some posts up for the last few letters except for Z, but ultimately, life got in the way. I wanted to end the challenge with a bang, and […]

A-to-Z Challenge Day Twenty-Five: You Can’t Always Get What You Want

I’m at home cooking and cleaning and nursing back to health a visitor. Busy, busy, busy. That’s all I have for today.

A-to-Z Challenge Day Twenty-Four: Xenobiology

I had a busy day so I just wanted to briefly touch on an idea I had to write a book on alien biology and anatomy as if it were a real book. This idea first occurred to me when I was thinking of a realistic physiological explanation as to the green color of Spock’s […]

A-to-Z Challenge Day Twenty-Three: Wrestling with My Conscience

Today’s post was originally meant to be a light-hearted retrospective of how hard it is to maintain good writing quality in the face of writing a blog post every day. It’s not that I haven’t loved doing it, but I usually like to take my time so I can write something with high quality. Instead, […]

A-to-Z Challenge Twenty-Two: Video Games and Narrative Literacy

A recent article by Emily Gera at Polygon focuses on the controversy in the new Tomb Raider game that arose when gamers learned that it would include the suggestion of rape. It’s a pretty decent article, and as Emily reports, writer Rhianna Pratchett found a silver lining to the controversy: “There’s silver linings that come […]

A-to-Z Challenge day Twenty-One: Universe from Nothing?

Hello, dear readers! For a while now I’ve wanted to share some deep science videos but haven’t gotten around to it. The letter “U” for the A-to-Z blogging challenge has allowed me to under the shaky premise that the word universe begins with the same letter. The first video is by Lawrence Krauss, in which […]

A-to-Z Challenge Day Twenty: Transcendence and Transhumanism

Lately I’ve found science fiction movies and television to be largely disappointing. Star Trek Into Darkness was a letdown (and I’ll get into that at some later time). Almost Human was a HUGE disappointment and has left me feeling empty inside for all of the hope I had it wouldn’t be another vacuous JJ Abrams […]

A-to-Z Challenge Day Nineteen: Starfleet Standard Issue Kilts

Starfleet from Star Trek is…well, it exists as sort of a conundrum in science fiction. It’s definitely a militaristic organization that expands humanity’s reach in the galaxy (perhaps even through colonialism). The Constitution Class Enterprise NCC-1701 is classified as a heavy cruiser, a name which hints at its nature as an armed vessel. But Starfleet, […]

A-to-Z Challenge Day Eighteen: Running

No, I’m not talking about jogging, sprinting, or dashing. I’m talking about running for a public office in an election. I’ve been doing my homework on the issues that are affecting the 93rd Congressional District and the State of Michigan, and I’ve been compiling information in a binder to keep it organized. This is the […]

A-to-Z Challenge Day Seventeen: Quarks, and Quasars, and other Quantum Nonsense

I think it was Deepak Chopra who first discovered that you could make any kind of outrageous claim you wanted to as long as you put the word “quantum” in front of the words “mechanics” or “science.” For instance, “According to quantum mechanics, the quantum superposition of the wave function is such that all things […]