#entertainment
# science
Avatar is an accidental tale of Singularitarian transhumanism with an environmentalist twist.
# oddities
A sci-fi experiment incorporating some of this blog's favorite themes...
# tech
Far be it from me to offer design advice to giant killer robot builders, but that's exactly what I'm going to do.
# oddities
Today is the day to celebrate your favorite cosmic horror, which lays dead-dreaming on the bottom of the ocean.
# oddities
Have you ever wondered what your favorite cartoon characters look like without skin or organs? Well, here's your chance to find out...
# science
Laplace was worried this sort of thing might happen and drive mere mortals insane...
# evolution
Guinness embraces a fun riff on evolution in its latest ad and the results are very entertaining.
# oddities
If sci-fi says more about our hopes and fears than about the future, what sort of sci-fi would our prehistoric ancestors produce?
# science
A filmmaker trying to kick-start a controversy to market a biographical movie about Charles Darwin is finding it hard to get attention. But why?
# tech
With every new generation of consoles and graphics, we get another dire warning about video game violence.
# oddities
How to turn your weekend knitting project into a luxury product for the less than discerning customer with a little anti-scientific woo.
# astrobiology
Unfortunately, District 9 seems like a realistic look at how we'd treat an alien species that can't really defend itself from us.
# science
ABC's Tandem follows the age old tradition of cramming enough technobabble into the plot of a space themed disaster show and hope the audience doesn't ask questions.
# science
A quick and dirty Q&A session about how this blog works behind the scenes based on readers' most common questions.
# science
Chris Mooney and GQ Magazine want readers to ask "Hey, who's that nerd posing with my favorite rock star?"
