If you’ve been a fan of science fiction for any length of time, you know that writers have continually postulated building spaceships in space, rather

If you’ve been a fan of science fiction for any length of time, you know that writers have continually postulated building spaceships in space, rather
I’ve been listening to a linguist, John McWhorter, on his passion for languages via the podcast Lexicon Valley. One of the things I realized recently
This is a republication of an article I wrote on my blog a while back. It bears repeating to the Mad Genii, as it is
Or possibly an old one, because I’m sure this issue has been discussed before. Something like “MacGuffin,” but with a different meaning. I want a
Convergent and divergent evolution As a zoologist (yes even ichthyologists are zoologists) the way species from different continents with little or no genetic relationship can
Last week I’d offered to do a full write up of how to read scientific paper critically, and asked if there was any interest in