Science

H. G. Wells must have had a blast writing The War of the Worlds–his classic tale of a martian invasion destroying most of south-east England,…

“The fiction is already there. The writer’s task is to invent the reality.” –J.G. Ballard The three bedroom semi detached property that British novelist, short…

Tomorrow marks the centennial of the birth of the ultimate horror film fanboy, Forrest J Ackerman, best known for being the editor of Famous Monsters…

Toronto-based musician Coins has an admirably succinct self-description on his Bandcamp page: “Coins makes dance music.” For my part I’m not one to dance much,…

From what I can gather Le Livre de la Sante or The Book of Health or the Encyclopedia of Mind, Body and Health by Joseph…

Burroughs contemplating an orgone box As a contributor to this blog, I spend a lot of my time poking around looking for suitable subjects that…

Frank Herbert said John Schoenherr was “the only man who has ever visited Dune.” Schoenherr (1935-2010) was the artist responsible for visualising and illustrating Herbert’s…

It’s a fairly standard female reply to an unwanted catcall to accuse the doofus doing the catcalling of having a tiny pee-pee. Well, we women…

via Zazzle It would be impossible for me to summarize research psychologist Dr. Jesse Bering’s sprawling 2010 Scientific American essay, “One reason why humans are…

Based in California’s Central Valley, medical marijuana patient and grower “Valleyrec420” celebrated getting 100K Instagram followers with this giant squid blunt crafted out of cigar…