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Join us RIGHT NOW for live color coverage of the first Apollo 15 Moon walk!!! by Gideon Marcus This ongoing farce In my last article (covering this month's F&SF), I discussed the then upcoming Apollo 15 with a bit of wistfulness. Now the...
Yesterday was early-bird shopping in the dealers’ room; today and tomorrow, the dealers’ room is open to all PulpFest members. PulpFest 2026’s programming got full steam underway with an evening packed with presentations — from Hugo...
If you hadn't heard, today is National Talk In An Elevator day. Each year, we use this day to step out of our comfort zone, go beyond the small talk, and really open to each other in that delightfully confined space. For instance, let's...
So, back in May, I added "The Locked Library," a companion page to "The Muniment Room," which is a permanent, easy to edit update of "The Updated Mammoth List of My Favorite Tales of Locked Murders & Impossible Crimes" – essentially...
I left my old job one year ago today. Me, walking out the door: I started my new job five days later. I seriously underestimated the difficulty of transitioning from a job in which I was an expert to a job where I knew exactly nothing....
1. Newer writers, just don't fucking use "AI" for anything, ever2. How odd that being an established writer with a firm "no 'AI'" stance and ample pre-"AI" IP will become a definite competitive advantage over "new, hot, and possibly...
This is a continuation of Part 1 from yesterday. The back portion of the update, as usual, deals with policy, rhetoric, risk and alignment. I had to include an extended discussion of the other open letter, the one about open weight...
The Balls family. This research was carried out in response to an email that I received on 7 January 2026. It was from the Foundation which is responsible for the Valkenswaard War Cemetery in the Netherlands. It asked for...
I’m home alone! My wife has taken the incredibly bold step of driving all three of our children up to Scotland by herself to spend some time with her parents. Not just some time, though. 6 - 7 days. Nearly a whole week! I shouldn’t need...
Welcome to the fourth celebration of the work of director Alfred Hitchcock. I have decided to extend the blogathon to start today instead of tomorrow(1st of August). You now have three days of celebrations. As always, I am once again so...
In his classic book A Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold, the man sometimes credited as the father of modern wildlife ecology, wrote, "It is part of wisdom never to revisit a wilderness, for the more golden the lily, the more certain that...
After Iceland, we traveled to Oslo, Norway. Summers can be hot in Atlanta, so we wanted to visit another country with cooler temps. Norway is amazing! So much natural beauty and quiet. We took a tour of the islands in Oslofjord (and...
"Adolescent" instantly felt right for describing certain ideas from the tech/crypto world. Heard on: Are the tech billionaires taking over?, The Global Story, BBC Sounds / World Service, 14 July 2026.
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me was released nearly 34 years ago in North America. David Lynch’s masterpiece was filmed in Washington and Southern California in September through October 1991. Despite the passage of time, I’m still...
Back home this week, Brattle back open, and the blockbuster one-two meaning Fantasia hasn't go tme too enormously far behind! The big opening is Spider-Man: Brand New Day, with Destin Daniel Cretton taking the reins for the Tom Holland...