Fried Brains and Sam:
When last we left Sam, he was under house arrest, plotting to end his contract in Heaven by destroying physical reality. Tied to my chair,…
2010
The Reunion
Coerced by fear, I was told to appear naked before My sovereign broham, and his willing peers. “If you don’t like it, find another way…
The single socks club
Whatever happens to the socks that get left behind? One day they are part of a pair, and then the next, one goes missing. Lost…
Forcing the issue:
How is Princess Leia a princess when her father is a senator? The answer is simple, but easy to miss. Leia’s adoptive father is Bail…
Local filmmaker courts controversy with “Zooey and Adam”
When asked if he anticipated the controversy surrounding his new film, Zooey and Adam, filmmaker Sean Garrity’s answer was fairly clear: “I had no idea!”…
Math 4 Life
Few words carry such cultural stigma as “mathematics.” We associate being good at math with an intellectual feat and think of math as some abstract…
Quantum computing
Last week I had the pleasure of interviewing Byron Southern, a theoretical physicist and professor of quantum mechanics at the University of Manitoba. With a…
A critical analysis of facilitated communication
The use of facilitated communication (FC) on Rom Houben, a 46-year old Belgian car crash victim, contributed to his recent diagnostic change from being in…
Zoological Investigations VIII
Ever wake up in the morning and just ask yourself, “Why?” This volunteer science writer does not profess to have all the answers to that…
So Bad it’s Good
In both fetish and fantasy, the “bad girl” is deviant, overtly sexual and dangerous. She is the one of temptresses of the Bible (Salome and…