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There have been countless films in recent times that claim to be science fiction. However, only a very few can actually make the claim that their movie is fiction with legitimately grounded science. This week Fox Studios releases The Martian and director...

I think it is fair to say that things do not last very long in our lives now. Whether it is the trading in of the iPhone 6 now that iPhone 7 is out or buying a new house because it would be closer to work. Perhaps it is just switching your job altogether...

Conventional Unwisdom By Clarice Feldman In an essay "Freedom of the Press" George Orwell wrote presciently about the dangers of a press too bound to prevailing orthodoxy to print anything else: "Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and...

TYPE “BARNETT SHALE” into a search engine, and the top hit will be the sponsored site Indeed.com, announcing “Barnett Shale Jobs!” A lot needs doing in the shale gas fields — laying pipe, driving trucks, running machinery. “Schedulers” are sought, to...

Tom Hanks – of all people  – was recently discussing overpopulation on NBC’s Today show. He was doing it to promote his upcoming movie, Inferno, which is all about an overpopulation crisis. The actor claimed that we will have too many people “in an instant...