A while back, I wrote about how science-fiction is for people of all genders and sexual orientations. Science fiction should children of all types to grow up and get careers in science fields. But it is doubly important for women, because they already face adversity from a culture that expects them to favor cooking over [...]
Gravity is a natural phenomenon by which objects with mass attract one another. It is a fact. Objects with mass attract each other in every single experiment and observation we have ever made. Evolution is change in the genetic material of a population of organisms through successive generations. It too is a fact. The genes [...]
Merry Christmas, happy holidays and a good new year to all. Today, there is not full post. Mostly because no one would read it. Instead, I have a short, amusing video of my brother-in-law Mike. For those that know him, this will make perfect sense. If you don’t know him, hopefully you are at least [...]
Recently on the Joystiq Xbox Fancast, an emailer asked if there was hope for Japanese developers to reclaim their relevance in today’s video game market. He mentioned how there was a point where all the most important video games came from Japan, and how Japanese developers always ran the show on every platform. This assumption [...]
[W]hen people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together. – Issac Asimov, “The [...]
Must like my last post, I am again tasked with defending the rights of those who I disagree with. I am not a smoker. I have never smoked a cigarette or cigar in my life. For the most part, I find smoking irritating and disgusting. Given the choice, I will avoid it at all costs. [...]