The Science Behind “The Expanse” - 1/25/17 - YouTube A panel with Caltech scientists and people from the show.
(tags: tv the-expanse science science-fiction sci-fi physics astronomy) Abigail Nussbaum - Person of Interest - The Good Bits Version If you want just the SF bits of Person of Interest (which are great, see Peter Watts’s review) without ( Read more... )

The Last Question - Album on Imgur Asimov’s classic short story, illustrated.
(tags: asimov science-fiction sci-fi art comics) Originally posted at Name and Nature. You can comment there. There are currently
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“The Culture represents the place we might hope to get to” | MetaFilter Mefi’s discussion of the (previously linked) recently published interview with Iain M Banks (RIP). It’s good.
(tags: metafilter iain-m-banks culture sci-fi sf science-fiction discussion) GCHQ’s ‘jihad on tech firms’ can only fail | Technology | The Guardian Blaming Facebook for ( Read more... )

Read The Leprechauns of Software Engineering | Leanpub Looks interesting, a few sample chapters on the “10 x” programmer and waterfall.
(tags: management software waterfall ebook) William Gibson: ‘We always think of ourselves as the cream of creation’ | Books | The Observer Gibson has a new book out.
(tags: william-gibson sci-fi science-fiction ( Read more... )

Robot makes people feel like a ghost is nearby | Science/AAAS | News You can induce sensed presences by having a robot poke you in the back.
(tags: emotions ghosts robots psychology) Philosophical Disquisitions: Is there a defensible atheistic account of moral values? Maybe, or at least, it’s as good as a popular theistic account.
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The Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang Ted Chiang’s short about memory, time and loss. It’s also an alien first contact story.
(tags: heptapod story science-fiction time ted-chiang sci-fi language first-contact memory) Cambridge: Poles apart Why Warsaw beats Cambridge Blog Mike Levy “A weekend in Warsaw made me think about Cambridge at night. In ( Read more... )