In 1973, the National Football League commissioned Jack Kirby to imagine the future of football for Pro! Magazine. Adam Rowe, writing for the Barnes and Noble Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog takes a closer look.

Well it’s an academic journal, so....

Since 2001, people have been declaring their religion as ‘Jedi’ on official census campaigns. The upside to this is that it’s been encouraging more people to take part in official census campaigns. Barnes and Noble takes a look.

But it didn’t shoot the .SVG

Google shot the serif.

The book is published by Lulu.com, not a vanity press but rather a POD self-publishing house. The difference being they don’t bag the author with all the extra fees and add-ons.

‘B’ could have a vowel on the other side, though. That was not explicitly ruled out.

You’re biased about your biases. “We judge whether we have a bias by examining our thoughts, and because we believe our thoughts are rational, we often think we’re not biased when we are... And the more we convince ourselves that we don’t have certain biases, the more likely we are to exhibit them.” [Nautilus]

This concept art from the Shuttle Program’s early days depicts two spacecraft and what looks like an early vision of an orbital outpost. This illustration comes from the archives of the San Diego Air & Space Museum, where you’ll find lots of “ideas that never flew...but might have led to other successful aircraft!”

One misunderstanding helped to create and shape a great part of science fiction in the 1870s and beyond. Over on Barnes and Noble’s science fiction site, Adam Rowe takes a look at how the mistranslation of Canali led astronomers and science fiction authors to believe there was life on Mars.

I don’t think the first player even has to place his first cigar in the center to win. He will win regardless.

If player 1 lays the middle of the first cigar across the midpoint, so that the table remains symmetrical, you get essentially the same situation: Now player 1 can mirror player 2’s moves, until player 2 runs out of options. Using this strategy, player 1 can always win.

I choose to read this as “won’t get a fourth season on NBC”. It could still get picked up by Amazon, I think. Although as stopping points go, ending with the Red Dragon storyline makes a certain amount of sense.

Or something you would read to your four-year-old, which would be pretty cool.