Two very significant things happened during these few years at IUS. One was Dr. D, as described above. The second thing is that my home...

During all of my new school fun and engineering adventures – to say nothing of the excitement of parenting two teenagers and a...

Surprisingly, our first revisitation of a popular fanboy debate focuses on a question that really wasn’t asked much back in the first...

I'll confess something here: when the Trek Fanboy Nation rose up as one in the spring of 2020, after the Picard Season One finale (in...

One very popular long-standing fanboy debate – made all the more popular when Battlestar Galactica rebooted in 2004 – is whether the...

It would be hard to overstate the impact of Star Trek’s David Gerrold on my writing career. If you’re reading this book at all, you’re...

I He wasn’t alone. At first this realization, triggered by a muffled sneeze in the locker behind him, brought more relief than fear; and...

It’s hard to convey to Millennials, let alone Zoomers, just what it was like growing up in a world where Star Trek was just a single TV...

Two high school friends informed this next great nerd discovery, one that merged my two great lifetime loves: science fiction and the...

It was 1968, I think. I’d have been seven years old. Kennedy’s quest for the moon was well underway, and as young as I was, it somehow...

By Scott Robinson Eager footsteps and loud giggles pushed against the cold, gray stillness that hovered like fog in front of him, and it...

And now, young son, your Uncle Scott is going to guide you across the hazardous terrain of housekeeping. You’re already familiar with the...

If you’re in the market for beliefs, there is of course no shortage. They’re everywhere! You can’t turn around without tripping over one,...

Oft have we pondered the mystery of strange loops – those bits and pieces of thought, emotion, memory and experience that pass between us...

George was the first Beatle to post up a #1 single as a solo artist. And a magnificent first #1 it was, becoming the biggest selling...

Science has, of late, confirmed what teenagers have known for more than 3,000,000 years: a human female’s desire to mate increases in...

The Joy of Sex emphasizes the importance of male scent in female sexual selection. “When it's a question of bed or not-bed, they let...

Once upon a time, David Brooks was a soldier of the conservative right. During this period, he had wandered out of a liberal youth...

For tens of millions the world over, the passing of Sean Connery is no small sorrow. The Scottish screen icon’s singular voice narrated...

A few moments ago, I found myself trying to read from a book with one hand and type with the other. This posture is non-optimal for...