Sooper Delishus.

Let’s talk about good ideas for a minute.
Good ideas are like building blocks. Pretty much everything worthwhile, from a fun weekend to a breakthrough in medicine, begins when someone puts a good idea out there into the ether. Often the idea stands alone, a self-sustaining entity. Other times it is met in kind with other […]

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Antarctica: The Forgotten Continent. Earth’s feety-pajamas.
This vast, wind-swept expanse of frozen hell stands its constant vigil at the end of the world, ever silent, ever watchful. The land lingers just out of sight, just off the map, and for centuries has captured the imaginations of … well, approximately no one. No one lives there, […]

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There are certain things we learn as kids that are supposed to be ironclad. They are our bedrock, the handful of concrete things we can understand in a world controlled by grown-ups.

Red-orange-yellow-green-blue-purple
E-G-B-D-F (lines), F-A-C-E (spaces)
Fifty states, thirteen colonies
Seven continents
Cats chase mice, dogs chase cats
Cooties are fatal

And many more, including my […]

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Last week, a group a scientists announced at a conference in France that they have discovered a trio of super-Earths a relatively short distance from our solar system. This is exciting news for the astronomy community, who pretty much have to kill one another in cold blood to make headlines these days—and even then it […]

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Heartened by the recent blow struck against the spidergoat menace, I’ve found that my outlook has improved dramatically. There’s been a subtle spring in my step, a flicker of hope around the corners of my smile. It’s kind of like the end of Terminator 2, when Sarah Connor stares at the road ahead of her—which, […]

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A funny thing happened when I mentioned both doom news and spidergoats in the same story. Out of nowhere, the forces of good got one right. This happens every now and then, I suppose—minor victories that stem the tides of darkness and give us some small (if temporary) comfort.
“There’s no way in hell […]

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Every now and then, dire news quietly appears in the background of media noise. Let’s call it doom news. The reporter puts on his best Pulitzer voice, while a stern-sounding expert tries to explain why the apocalypse lurks on the horizon—and, as often as not, why it’s already too late. The varieties […]

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