99.999% of all species that have ever existed are extinct. Rather than an aberration death its self is the goal of evolution.

Me I'm looking forward to "Itsy Bitsy Spider in 3D"... This ain't the spider you remember. Bwwwaaa! Dodge... Explosion!

Not just you. I crack open and read Maus and Maus II every couple years and weep. Helps keep things in perspective.

The science here on io9 is cool, the pop culture weirdness too, but what I really come here for are these tasty nutritious tidbits of writing craft advice. Thank you again for another tool in the chest to get my words up to snuff. I can't wait to try this out on my battered corpse of a first draft "Squids of Doom".

Yea, it's about relative motion. Just the other day I realized that in Superman the movie when he's going super fast around the Earth and it appears to spin backwards... it's actually Superman that's going backwards in time, not the Earth.

#corrections

As long as individuals die and/or reproduce evolution can never stop for any species.

*rimshot

What about the telekinesis?! Is it innate? Is it from a drug?

Then you might like Squarepusher, µ-Ziq , and/or amon tobin

Oh man, I was so excited for about 20 seconds.

Weird? You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means... Well, at least not odd and unexpected enough to qualify as weird to me. Good short regardless, thanks for the link!

I'm with Feynman on this one, "There's always room at the bottom." Meaning I don't think we should be looking for large scale engineering feats, but at smaller nano/femto scale engineering feats.

Must. Not. Ask...

Correct. It's usually marked up by at least 25%.

My step-dad's father was at Los Alamos and hung out with Feynman and the rest and got up to all sorts of shenanigans.

Thank you... sniffle, sniff... cry...

I'll probably end up waiting for the animation clips to come out on youtube. Quirky teenage lesbian romance? Meh. New animation from the modern masters of meat and hair and 24fps surreality? YES!

Reminds me of Kim Stanley Robinson's "The Years of Rice and Salt" but with 10 times smaller scope.

Lovely article, thank you.