Love how the view just opens up once the dune is crossed. A whole new vista revealed!

Exactly. The study only measures what the test subjects have already internalized from the surrounding environment (about college, about grades, about the student-teacher relationship, about the meaning of all this within the specific context of 21st century Western society, which has its own particular scarcity…

Nah, that whole notion will be revised again. Ultimately the solar system will be understood to contain quite a few more than nine planets.

It helps call attention to the intellectual shortcomings of the kind of people who are inclined to make unprovoked, name-calling attacks against the left wing in relation to an article that has no bearing on politics.

"country's"

And if corporations pay money to support climate change skeptics...?

Never had a problem with Adric.

Those upper wing flaps and the overall shape put me in mind of the Hoth snowspeeders.

Well then the hammer and sickle ought to stand for Gorbachev.

Yet another fascinating and beautiful design post on io9. Thanks.

One way this was not an "error" was that it was crucial in allowing Hitler to come to power in the first place. For me, the key thing to remember is that in the Nazi worldview, "race" and "nation" were inseparable. By declaring all "real" Germans to be of one race, Hitler could unite a national constituency that was…

Dhalgren:

Perhaps the notion should be to reward the concrete plan for action that follows *from* the failure.

Excellent and clarifying article. Thank you.

Most of these don't seem to be so much "failed" as "never having left the drawing board."

I love the art of the TTA books and I couldn't be more delighted to see a really good model-builder paying homage to them. BUT — but but but — I feel that the parts of the spacecraft that the model builder "made up" b/c they can't be seen in the original painting (the backs of the seats, the cockpit space, the engine…

Some of these put me in mind of the early 20th century avant-garde Soviet architecture of Tatlin.
http://kanelynch.tumblr.com/post/374401452…

Quick correction: in Aliens, Weyland-Yutani sends the colonists to investigate the space jockey derelict, not the remains of the Nostromo. (The Nostromo, as we know, was blown into vapor at the end of Alien.)

Does, in fact, look like a giant ad for Lego and nothing more.

Holy hell, I always knew grizzlies were huge, but... holy hell.