No Fear of the Future

Sometimes, when faced with a once-in-a-lifetime event, you don't let anything so mundane as blistering Texas heat, a cloudy sky or a tra...

Or, flying submarine theater, at least. I spent most of yesterday over at Aquarena Center , riding herd on the media gathered to watch an un...

My essay " Science Fiction in the Edgelands " is up—online and in the April print issue—at The New York Review of Science Fiction....

In the past couple of months, a new billboard has appeared around Austin advertising Indio Beer, a new entrant to the US market. An Aztec...

[Pic: MMA fighter Nick Newell, via Carbonated.tv] The other day the New York Times ran a story about amputee mixed martial arts fighters . ...

About a month ago, a coworker bought a number of archaic digital watches for everyone in the office. He found them in the bargain bin of ...

The front page of this morning's New York Times has a stroke piece about the Navy's new combat vessels that reads like a page from ...