Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Why is Marvin Lewis Still the Bengals' Head Coach?

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I understand that Lewis, in getting his contract extension on January 4th, got a huge assist from the at-that-time-impending NFL lockout. Ke...

Bonus Black Hole Note! The Enterprise Was Never In Any Danger!

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At the end of Star Trek , the Enterprise is caught in the gravitational well of the black hole, seemingly inescapably so, and escapes only b...
Monday, May 30, 2011

Red Matter: Trying to Explain Black Holes in Star Trek

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Preface: I KNOW that Star Trek (2009) played merry hell with all sorts of physics. I'm not trying to explain how contrary they run to re...
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Sunday, May 29, 2011

Babylon 5 Eye Rant

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Okay. Minor spoilers that come in Season 2, Episode 16: One of the major characters on this show has a pair of black "shadows" fol...
Thursday, May 26, 2011

Alternate Material for "How To Train Your Dragon"

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How to Train Your Dragon is a filmic bildungsroman, a coming-of-age story for an outcast boy who, instead of being changed by an authoritar...
Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Why Game of Thrones is So Damn Good

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For the first time since Lost and 24 went off the air, I'm hooked on a TV show that's currently being televised, and I thought I...
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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

What We Should Do About Yucca Mountain

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The last time I checked, there was no funding for the continued development, study of and construction of nuclear waste storage facilities a...