Wading Through Treacle

Clare, Adrian, my mother and myself visited the University of Bristol Botanical Gardens lunchtime today. Here are some pictures, mostly take...

In Stanisław Lem’s famous philosophical-SF novel, ‘ His Master’s Voice’ , an alien message is received from the stars. A Manhattan Project-s...

Alex has been here over the Bank Holiday so today Clare, Adrian, Alex and myself lunched at the Castle of Comfort pub, on the way to Cheddar...

The DARPA Hundred Year Starship program is holding a public symposium in Orlando, FL at the end of next month. The symposium will plan a cen...

This has got to be the spookiest creation ... ... brought to you by Boston Dynamics for the US Military.

Yesterday we were in Bristol for Clare's first Brachytherapy session (she has one more final treatment the end of next week). The treat...

Part 1 Did you read the SF story where a future population is oppressed by ... well, an evil oppressor, and the time-travelling hero han...

In October last year, NASA announced its ‘Hundred-Year Starship’ program designed to settle humans on other worlds, starting with Mars in th...

In George Orwell’s totalitarian fable, ‘1984’, Party executive O’Brien is interrogating dissident Winston Smith under torture. “Do you rem...

In 1992, after the acquittal of LAPD officers following the beating of Rodney King, Los Angeles burned for six days as criminal gangs looted...