Nadine Cochran was known for being precocious, and intelligent. It always caught adults off guard whenever they saw the blond-haired child, with her flowery clips and her pink, teddy-bear backpack. She would fix them with that gaze, and speak to them in that tone. She was a sharp kid, and it was surprising to say the…
Disguises are important. They can make a lie into a truth and a truth into a lie. Disguises can distract you from seeing what is right in front of you, until it is too late.
The red-faced Thimblebeast, named for its unusually large, red head, sitting atop an always too-small body, looks me in the face wearing its, honestly, pretty pathetic human disguse and says, “No, really. I’m a little boy. Here’s my creds, see?”
"The human brain" the salesman had explained "is built to find and focus on human faces." His patter had been accompanied by a long slide show of images of burnt toast, peeling paint and knotted trees, all of which, he assured, the human mind had found faces in. The surround of the mask therefor, should not matter.…
The government has an automated system to track your movements and monitor who your friends are. Our news comes…
And it kind looks like a tank. Well, one covered with dead fish. It does. See?
In Einstein's universe, spacetime is supposed to be some crazy rubber sheet full of folds and bends. But the idea…
Alice: Madness Returns may have been my favorite game of 2011, warts and all. It was surprisingly mature, satisfyingly dark and intelligent, absolutely gorgeous to look and listen to, and enjoyable to navigate and explore.
This past week saw the release of the first chapter of the newest iteration of the Ghost in the Shell franchise with …
American McGee's Spicy Horse studio just launched a Kickstarter for a new game where you play as Dorothy going up…
Kudos to Stossel; unfortunately, his argument probably fell on deaf ears.
Do you find our galaxy too confining? Do you long for the vast expanses of extragalactic space? Now, you can make…
reminds me of
Well, I'm excited about this. And I'm excited about the class warfare angle it plays. The US public needs to see more of that in films.
CD Projekt. Kinect has never heard of such a company. Kinect is proud to announce the launch of Microsoft's new original IP, The Witcher 3. Kinect knows you'll absolutely love it. Go ahead. Don't mind Kinect. Kinect just wants to watch you play. You are the controller. As long as you please Kinect. What's that? What…
In high school, you probably learned that trigonometric functions – like sine, cosine and tangent –can be derived,…
How do you harmlessly reveal bombs that can be triggered by a single photon? With the Elitzur-Vaidman bomb tester. …
That question has been answered a long time ago. Resonance does not mean that the structure of the molecule changes in time, but that the real structure can be thought of as a weighted average (in this case, the weights are the same) of many structures which are called resonant.
It has been measured that all the…
In a monumental breakthrough with far ranging implications, cardiologists at the Children's Hospital Boston in…