Physicists are people, possibly slightly crazy, and usually incomprehensible when talking shop, who seek out laws of the universe that can explain and predict how the cosmos works. They use this thing called science to accomplish this feat.
But there’s another classification of people, occasionally overlapping with the scientific kind, who have their own mechanisms by which they determine laws of the universe. These are called science fiction authors. Their laws may not necessarily rigorously adhere to the scientific method, but they demonstrate a different kind of insight, one born of the school of hard knocks method. Continue reading Laws of the Universe According to SF Authors
I’m a bit of a grammar nazi. If you type “alot” instead of “a lot,” I despise you. If you type “prolly” instead of “probably,” I want to order up a short school bus for you to go to school in. And if you say “for John and I” instead of “for John and me,” I want to pull my hair out. After all, if you take out the “John,” would you say “for I” or “for me”?
Everyone seems to be talking about how crappy 2019 was. I know I had some pretty unpleasant things happen to me. But surely some good things happened too.
by Guest Blogger Doug Gibson
Doug Gibson is a colleague of mine who has written published stories, is a retired editor of a city newspaper, and maintains his blog 
With George Miller’s announcement of three more Mad Max films on their way, I began to reminisce about the four films that have been released so far. Three of them star Mel Gibson as Max Rockatansky and one stars Tom Hardy as Max…sort of. In reality, there was very little of Mad Max in Mad Max: Fury Road, and Hardy as Max didn’t end up doing a whole lot, considering the movie is named after him.
I make no secret of the fact that I loathe superhero movies. Christopher Reeve’s Superman was fun. Tim Burton’s two Batmans were typically and deliciously offbeat. Christopher Nolan’s Batmans were well done too. The occasional superhero movie was fun escapist cinema that I could enjoy along with everyone else.
But somewhere along the way, I got burned out by the endless stream of superhero movies. I haven’t even seen Nolan’s third Batman. It matters not to me how great the movie might be, I’m sick of the endless barrage! 
There’s a mosaic that archaeologists unearthed in the ancient city of Sepphoris in Israel. Colloquially it’s called “the Mona Lisa of Sepphoris.”