Culture
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Top 5 Minecraft Science Experiments
Sure, the world of Minecraft can be a pretty dark place. Old, abandoned fortresses, strange urban legends, maybe even a…
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A Space Between Dreams and Nightmares: The Daily Doodles
Oh, it started as a simple thing on Facebook. A doodle a day. No big deal. Then it moved to…
Top 10 Fictional Time Machines
Time travel. It’s something that exists in a narrow region between science and fantasy. Maybe it’s theoretically possible, maybe it’s…
The DeLorean Time Machine Gets A New Coat Of Paint
I’ve seen two of the DeLorean time machines up close: the one at Universal Studios Orlando (which was starting to…
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Exploring “A Slower Speed of Light”
Produced by MIT Game Lab, A Slower Speed of Light is an open-source “game prototype” that takes players on a…
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Book Review: Olaf Jansen And The Smoky God
The Smoky God, written by Willis George Emerson and published in 1908, is a retelling of the strange adventures of…
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The Apocalypse Hits World Of Warcraft
A few days ago, players in the popular MMORPG World of Warcraft began to mysteriously drop dead in the streets…
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The Madness Of Minecraft
There’s something altogether Lovecraftian about Minecraft. It’s not the story — Minecraft doesn’t have a story, per se. It’s the…
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Book Review: Alas, Babylon
I finished reading Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank over the weekend. It’s a good book, and so I thought I’d…
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Dug North And His Amazing Automata
I’ve been fascinated with automata ever since playing Syberia and reading Gaby Wood’s intriguing (if not occasionally out-of-focus) book Edison’s…