#books
# sci-fi
Hail Mary was a badly mismanaged, rushed death trap driven by groupthink and politics, and Ryland Grace was right to balk at the idea.
# tech
Readers feel scammed. Authors are furious. But AI book slop continues to proliferate like a plague.
# astrobiology
Nick Redfern's publishers really didn't like having his theory debunked...
# science
Curtis White fancies himself a man of deep thought and keep insight. His "nuh-uh" take on Dawkins' The God Delusion shows otherwise.
# evolution
If Darwin never published his treatise, we'd still have a theory of evolution almost identical to the one we have today thanks to his contemporaries.
# oddities
The sci-fi experiment is now loose on Amazon.com for less than the price of a latte.
# oddities
Right wing conspiracy theorists are really, really, really invested in a New World Order plot they believe is outlined in a document called Agenda 21...
# science
No good deed goes unpunished, including writing a science book that will get critiqued by scientists who aren't shy about getting pedantic.
# politics
R.I.P. Christopher Hitchens, 04.13.1949 - 12.15.2011
# oddities
Even a cursory glance at post-modernism shows that it's basically just trendy nonsense. Emphasis on nonsense.
# science
Cooking is primarily an art. Nathan Myhrvold wants to make it much more of a science with a creative flair.
# space
Dougal Dixon has seen the future of the human species and it's not a fun or good one...
# tech
It's often tempting to compare advancements in technology to evolution. But they're two fundamentally different processes.
# oddities
The third, and for now, final installment of a sci-fi experiment focused on this blog's favorite themes.
# evolution
Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini wrote a book about evolution riddled with mistakes called out by biologists. Now they're pretending their critics are faceless nobodies with suspect credentials.