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This week, the BBC aired a program where a group of retired diplomats and generals war gamed a WWIII scenario…

I personally don’t think that KIC 8462852, the star Kepler discovered with still-unexplained properties, has some…

Fans of Sense8 no doubt love Caephus’ wonderful bus, the Van Damn. This is based on an actual art movement in…

I hate to sound alarmist, but this BBC article scares the hell out of me:

Can you think of any other explanations for these men escaping? Because I’m pretty sure they’re special agents for…

I’m currently pretty much stuck at home due to a not especially fun medical condition, but it means I have a lot of…

My father passed away a week ago. His life story will probably be of interest to Observation Deck readers because he…

This will be printed in my local paper this Sunday, but I wrote it, so I’m preserving it for posterity here.

I’ve been really enjoying Berkeley Breathed’s revived Bloom County. It’s just as funny and sharp as it was back in…

I never thought I would see this again, but I stumbled upon it today. Back in the early days of Cinemax, Harry…

We’ve all had wrong numbers, but how many of us can say that the person on the other end of the line was an…

Once upon a time, back in the 1950s, Groucho Marx was the host of a popular radio and then TV program called You Bet…

I’m being haunted by the last visit with my father. It didn’t feel so bad at the time, mostly because I think I was…

During the Apollo Program, many nations put out stamps commemorating it. My mother tried to collect as many as she…