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Incidentally, the title doesn't refer to Game of Thrones but to Worm because ... yeah. Bad shit happens. All the time.

Even more incidentally, 2013's yearlust is Worm. Read it. You will (not) be sorry.

You think Wikipedia binges are dangerous? They are. You think TVTropes is intoxicating? It is.

But.

If you want your eyeballs sucked out of your skull in a bottomless whirlpool of delirious addiction, pick a topic, any topic, and search for it in the magazine section of Google Books. Nothing will hook you more on the wonders and terrors of the ( Read more... )

I'm sure we've all heard of synaesthesia, the neurological trait where folks have one part of their brain crosswired with another. The most commonly known variant is the one where senses are plugged into each other so the synaesthete tastes sounds or perhaps hears colours. Others abound such as "grapheme-->colour" feature associational links ( Read more... )

So, there's this city on the Eastern seaboard, call it Notham City. It's a big, brawling city with lots of industry and business, great gothic architecture, and a big crime problem ( Read more... )

A Different Kind of Singularity

The eve of the 22nd century. A world where the dearly-departed send postcards back from Heaven, and Jainist evangelicals make scientific breakthroughs by speaking in tongues; where genetically-engineered vampires solve problems intractable to baseline Humans, and soldiers come with zombie switches that shut off ( Read more... )

Michelle Koenig-Schwartz, whoever she is, is the shit.

I taught the members of my unit a new methodology -- one based on building rapport with suspects, showing cultural understanding and using good old-fashioned brainpower to tease out information. I personally conducted more than 300 interrogations, and I supervised more than 1,000. The methods my team used are not classified (they're listed in the ( Read more... )

Imagine an island with three people, Morgan, Chase, and you. Each of you has ten coconuts. Morgan and Chase agree to hold each other's coconuts and pay interest to each other, and you think that's silly and just keep your coconuts under your bed. Eventually, through compound interest, they have accounts worth hundreds of coconuts, while you still ( Read more... )

Concept art for The Joker's Dark Knight look.


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