Here's a brief animated summary of the Cthulhu Mythos for those of you who from some bizarre reason haven't read it yet.

A closer, more scientific-ish look at the dreaded primordial graboid...

Here's to hoping that the Discovery Channel does right by Phil Plait's show...

Tomorrow, it's Weird Things vs. transhumanist George Dvorksy on Skeptically Speaking.

The third, and for now, final installment of a sci-fi experiment focused on this blog's favorite themes.

Tim Minchin's famous beat poem about a woo-ey dinner guest is getting made into a short film.

Way back when this blog was just getting started, I decided to include an odd and neat little image I once found making the rounds on the web in a post on Jim Marrs' latest conspiracy potboiler. That graphic was a piece of concept art for an alt history

Baba Brinkman comes up with a proper diss track for cranks, quacks, and snake oil salesmen.

Science fiction has been a vehicle for humanity exploring its deepest fears and highest aspirations. But to gatekeepers of the film world, sci-fi is always nothing more than pulpy shlock.

It's rare you get to talk to a mastermind with plans to rule the world so it's hard not to jump at the chance to interview one.

Futurama might have an unorthodox but workable solution to solving the woes of global warming. Minus the flaming robot farts, of course.

Part two of the sci-fi experiment featuring a space opera built around this blog's favorite themes...

Intel gives us a humorous peek at a surprisingly plausible future of robotics with its "Lunch Room" ad.

Thankfully for us, the future Repo Men imagines is very unlikely to happen, which makes it difficult to take its parable seriously.

Sometimes we need to let entertainment stay entertainment instead of bending over backwards trying to turn it into an educational tool.