I was tinkering with some old satellite telemetry data last week when a news alert popped up on my tablet about facial recognition software being...
Look, I need to be honest about something that’s been bugging me for years. Everyone talks about how great modern sci-fi television is, and yeah,...
Had this argument with my neighbor Janet last month that’s been bugging me ever since. She was going on about how Star Wars isn’t real...
I spent way too long last weekend reorganizing my bookshelves, which is what happens when you’re procrastinating on actual work. But while I was moving...
I was about fifteen minutes into my third viewing of Blade Runner 2049 when I stopped caring about the plot entirely. Not because it’s bad...
Man, I can still see that theater lobby in Houston, summer of ’77. My dad had dragged the whole family to see this space movie...
So there I was last Tuesday, trying to convince my AP students that Fahrenheit 451 deserves a spot on their summer reading list, when Marcus...
You know how sometimes you stumble across something that completely changes your perspective on what you thought you already understood? That happened to me last...
I was sorting through a dusty box at a garage sale in Capitol Hill last month when my fingers hit something familiar – the worn...
So there I was last week, sprawled on my couch at 2 AM, four episodes into *Serial Experiments Lain*, seriously questioning whether the weird digital...