Rather than mad, I like to think of Walter as an eccentric scientist with a limitless imagination - an imagenda, if you will.

Those are a couple of excellent nominees there, both intensely annoying. Spandau Ballet, wtf?

I believe there's a minor error there; the name of the journal should read *Eugenics, Policy and the Environment*.

Its good that network TV is airing shows like The River and Awake that are trying to put a different spin on the usual narrative. Although I really like The River, so far Awake has done a much better job at sustaining the novelty, suspending the viewer's disbelief and developing the characters. Really strong episode…

Yes, I noticed that too - but I assumed I'd misremembered. Maybe there's more to it?

So hard to compare episodes from the two eras - for me, having watched them in real chronology, the episodes are colored so much by my changing worldview. So a second doctor episode, which I think was set on a moonbase and featured cybermen and a nasty disease communicated by sugar (quite prescient), had the greatest…

And..... Kindle previewed. Or preview kindled. Whichever. Thanks!

So good you're not gonna share, huh?

Hope I'm not the only one who had to make a detour through Wikipedia to find out what "baroque" means. Sadly I'm still not entirely sure.

Have to say that, much as I enjoy the science and science fiction writings here, Charlie Jane's musings and advice sharing on fiction writing are among the best and certainly most useful things posted here. I'm indubitably (see!) guilty of trying to be too clever in my modest attempts at writing, not to mention using…

Red's a werewolf, Ruby's going home with Mary M and sheriff Emma and next up Snow's going dark (Slushy?). Show's finally getting better.

Took almost two seasons and the loss of probably their most compelling character, but last night The Walking Dead finally realized its potential.

The fact that Fox is prepared to air out of order an episode of Alcatraz, which, supposedly at least, has a story arc and some continuity, suggests they either don't think much of the show's or the viewers' intelligence, or both.

Pffffff. Back in my day we couldn't buy anything and we had to make all our equipment ourselves from fairy liquid bottles and sticky back plastic. And we NEVER left the lab for a few beers - we always had it brought in. And we never made stuff up, we just made stuff. And we liked it!

Earth to Norm: We've carefully considered your kind offer and have polled the World's populace. Those in favor of accepting offer; 99%

While Many Worlds is perhaps not entirely intuitive, and pretty difficult to grasp at any meaningful level, I still find it easier to get my head around than the meaning(s) of infinity. Head hurting now.

I'm going to seek out that story, no doubt I've read it somewhere before, but if I can't remeber it then its new to me. Thanks!

Thanks for the suggestion. Not a huge fan of hard SF but it sounds pretty interesting, gonna check it out.

"people who live in some sort of alternate universe"

I possibly should have pointed out that I'm not a physicist or a chemist, but I am a cancer researcher. Of course, you're quite right about cancer, but its likely that the reason a particular tumor kills you can be tracable to a single one of the many cumulative mutations that contribute to tumor development.