the sceptical futuryst

I loved this cartoon by Matt The Simpsons Groening when I saw it years ago. And was delighted to rediscover it a week or two back, in a pu...

A city in suspended animation Photo by Jerry Paffendorf | Backstory In late January I was honoured to speak at Cranbrook Academy of Art in ...

After attending a 35th anniversary screening of Monty Python and the Holy Grail last night -- a movie which revels in outrageous anachroni...

An older, sadder Barack Obama looks back on the Copenhagen climate conference Today marks the beginning of the United Nations climate confer...

Update (25MAR10): V ideo of the lecture (minus the interesting post-talk Q&A, unfortunately), made available on YouTube courtesy of CC...

The Coral Cross landing page (logged-in state) while the game was on foot Folks, much water under the bridge in the past month. One week ag...