The Nova series The Elegant Universe is available online for free as a bunch of QuickTime or RealVideo streams. This show provides some great general-audience coverage of the current state of physics.
I wish this was in a format we could show on our television using our DSM. Anyone know an easy way to convert QuickTime streams to AVI files?
You've probably already seen this, but RIP Bob Denver. Speaking as someone old enough to have seen Gilligan's Island in the original run, this is a sad day on the island...
Sara T. Hinson says Firefly has a Libertarian bent:At its best, science fiction advocates liberty. While Star Trek lamentably supported a "Federation knows best" mentality, other works like Star Wars and Robert Heinlein's novels have promoted the dissolution of central rule and the triumph of the individual. For the science fiction writer, space
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