The Emerald Tablet: The Esoteric Text at the Core of Netflix’s Hit Series ‘Dark’ GregMonday, May 7th Netflix's German-language time-travel series Dark was a huge hit across the globe after it premiered on the streaming video service in December 2017. With its i... 1 Comment11 min read
A History of Artificial Intelligence, From Ancient Babylon to Westworld Martin J. ClemensFriday, April 20th "By far the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.” ― Eliezer Yudkowsky Artificial Intelligenc... 0 Comments15 min read
VIDEO: How to Accurately Depict Battles in Spaaaaaace! (But What About STS-48?) red pill junkieFriday, April 13th Because Science's Kyle Hill entertainingly explains why almost all cinematic depictions of space battle are just dead wrong. Star Wars and Star Trek are obvious... 0 Comments1 min read
Weaponizing Facebook: How the Social Media Giant Manipulates Your Mind GregMonday, April 9th Excerpted from the short ebook Weaponizing Facebook: How Companies Like Cambridge Analytica Are Manipulating Your Mind, and What You Can Do About It, ... 2 Comments12 min read
The Primal Terror at the Heart of Alex Garland’s ‘Annihilation’ GregThursday, March 15th While sci-fi fans are no doubt disappointed at the extremely limited cinema release of Annihilation, Alex Garland's much-anticipated next movie after the well-r... 1 Comment4 min read
Does Quantum Physics Imply That You Are Immortal? GregFriday, March 9th Is Schrödinger's Cat immortal? And by extension, does that mean that both you and I will live forever as well? In the famed thought experiment devised by Aus... 0 Comments4 min read
Boston Dynamics ‘Test the Robustness’ of their SpotMini Robot and Seal Our Doom GregWednesday, February 21st Uh-oh, those Boston Dynamics guys are at it again. Not content to bully their humanoid Atlas robot, now they're smacking their robot dog SpotMini on the head wi... 1 Comment1 min read
The (Not-So-) Unlikely Worlds of Paul McAuley GregTuesday, February 6th Science fiction has always been a wonderful way of exploring where the cutting edge of science might take us in the future, and one of the best authors in that ... 0 Comments11 min read
Bulls in an A.I. Shop: The Westworld Season 2 Trailer is Here! GregMonday, February 5th HBO's sci-fi series Westworld has been on hiatus for the past year, but season 2 returns in April this year - and the trailer for the new season landed as an ad... 1 Comment1 min read
Enter the World of ‘Mute’, the New Sci-Fi Movie from ‘Moon’ Director Duncan Jones GregWednesday, January 31st We mentioned last month some of the incredible weird sci-fi that Netflix is currently producing (reminder: Altered Carbon begins in a few days time). We can now... 0 Comments0 min read
