Announcing Future Science, an occasional feature reviewing forward-looking science from the past. Today's offering: a remote-controlled snow shovel from 1953. [Continue]

I've decided to nail down the thematic focus of my Notes From the Lizard Lair blog. This post talks about the three things I'll concentrate on from here on out. [Continue]

Pdfs are a vestige of analog thinking in a digital world. This persistance of the outmoded is a common pattern when pervasive technological change happens, but the blogosphere and altered information habits is forcing a change. [Continue]

I suppose it was inevitable.   I get so immersed in my writing – must, because I “go there” and become part of these people, ride along with them like a ghost in the night or a spy-cam with night-vision – that I Become One [Continue]