Joss Whedon on Romney
Still not sure who to vote for? Perhaps director Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly, and directory of Marvel’s Avengers, can offer you some sagely advice.
Author: M.W.Chase
Planet Found in Alpha Centauri System
The European Southern Observatory has just announce the discovery of a planet in the Alpha Centauri system! Our nearest neighboring star system, only 4.3 light years away, makes this discovery unbelievably exciting. The planet is roughly the same size and mass as Earth, but orbits very close to its host...
Samuel L. Jackson: Wake Up and Vote
I normally shy away from posting on political topics, but this one is just too good to pass up. Samuel L. Jackson himself has a few choice words about this coming election — and be warned, he does use that one word for which he is most famous.
New Hobbit Trailer
The new trailer for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is now out! Just watch it:
Warp Drive Possible?
Is warp drive possible? Dr. Harold White, Advanced Propulsion Lead for the NASA Engineering Directorate, thinks that it might be — and he’s not alone. The first plausible concept for a real warp drive was suggested in 1994 by physicist Miguel Alcubierre, for which the concept is also known as...
Hobbit – Production Video Blog
Now here is a good way to spend the next hour and a half — it’s the complete Hobbit production video blog, episodes 1 to 8. Check it out!
Dragon*Con 2012 Parade
As I previously posted, we’ve just returned from Dragon*Con 2012, and it was great! Most of my pictures turned out to be from the parade (since I skipped out on the costume contest), and while I have far more pictures than I can possibly post, I thought I would just...
Dragon*Con 2012!
Well, we just returned from Dragon*Con 2012, and it was great! Dragon*Con is one of North America’s biggest sci-fi/fantasy conventions, and I think there were somewhere around 45,000 people there this year (though I swear it felt more like 45,008). I can’t even begin to name the guests who attend,...
Rolling in the Higgs
Well, here’s a really geeky music video parody of Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep” called “Rolling in the Higgs”, sung in a cappella by physics student Tim Blair of A Capella Science. Check it out! There’s a collider under Geneva Reaching new energies that we’ve never achieved before Finally we can...
Rest In Peace, Neil Armstrong
Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the moon, has passed away. He was 82. I am deeply saddened by the passing of this iconic American hero–a hero not only to science and the spirit of exploration, but a hero to all humanity whose one...
