posts from aliens

Infinite Contrarianism

by April 13th, 2011 - Science »

While I have great passion for the subject, I would love to find out that all of mathematics is completely wrong and that we’d only been very lucky with all of the engineering projects we’ve accomplished over the course of our existence. Somewhere above us floats an invisible spaceship with benevolent aliens looking on, ready […]

Educating Educators: The Price of Doing Nothing

by March 15th, 2011 - Politics » Society »

A lot has been said recently regarding the costs of public education and society’s respect or lack thereof for teachers. And as usual, the foaming sea of all that is said misses most of the points and devolves into the normal tried-and-true political battle of unexamined, preexisting emotions that are the core of Red vs. […]

Harder and Harder to Go Coast to Coast AM

by August 9th, 2009 - Culture »

Somewhere out there… Some time ago, there was born quite possibly the greatest radio program ever: Coast to Coast AM, an unbridled breeding ground of imagination and investigation covering all topics strange, silly, and out of the reach of current or even possible science. Although the format has surely evolved over the years, it eventually […]

Woman Needs Man Needs

by February 1st, 2008 - Society »

Lets get this out of the way. I am not being super sexist in this thing…not trying to anyway. I’m simply playing the percentages of a particular view of reality to set up the premise for a half-decent comparison that leads to another tangential, sci-fi tale of irrelevance. There. We’ll revisit this I’m sure…probably immediately. […]

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