The Martian movie review: life on Mars
An excellent complement to the novel, simplifying the science without dumbing it down yet retaining the suspense and urgency of its interplanetary stranding.
NASA
Tomorrowland (aka Tomorrowland: A World Beyond) movie review: back to the future
It gets a tad heavy-handed, but my eyes welled with tears of geeky joy at the film’s embrace of an optimism it steadfastly refuses to see as old-fashioned.
Doctor Who thing: petition to name newly discovered planet “HD 106906 b” Gallifrey
Alas, the International Astronomical Union is unlikely to be open to the suggestion.
what would you like to know would be one of humanity’s legacies (à la NASA’s Voyager)?
What are the greatest things we have already achieved or could conceivably achieve that future superevolved cockroaches or alien tourists would look at and go, “Huh. Those humans weren’t half bad”?
feel the rush of endorkins (Star Trek Into Darkness review)
A Star Trek for our times. Very much for our times. Which means there’s little hope to be found here…
Leia now a Disney princess (and other adventures in social networking)
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is your family a Walt Disney World Family? (and other adventures in social networking)
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Darth Vader meets Batman, on the subway (and other adventures in social networking)
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if Shakespeare wrote about the modern English royal family (and other adventures in social networking)
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Susan Sarandon has the brilliant solution to women being treated like unpersons (and other adventures in social networking)
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