GMBlackjack has now published a pony particle physics story I commissioned. Check out Daring Do and the Inexplicable Artifact. An A.K. Yearling adventure in which our pegasus hero discovers a mysterious object that appears to be shooting some sort of beam, but while it is evidently drawing a lot of power, it appears to have no effect whatsoever on anything in its path. Daring enlists the help of

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Twilight: "Hey Shepherd! How was your meeting with the Princess?"

Shepherd: "Pretty exhausting, but productive. I had to spend the night though: Geez, you guys gotta invent cars. And roads. Or flying cars."

Twilight: "Dash thinks you're sleeping with the Princess, you know."

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Bill Nye appeared on CNN Tuesday morning to discuss the historic flooding in Louisiana, but before he left, he took a jab at CNN’s climate change-denying weather correspondent Chad Myers...

I and all three of my coworkers at the Medical Robotics & Computer Integrated Surgery Lab at Case Western Reserve University are graduating this semester, and I wanted commemorate our work there, so I made this poster.

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One of the fun things about sfnalizing magic (at least in relatively firm SF) is all the unanticipated consequences that you need to look for, carefully, before you decide that that's how that works. Because whatever physical principle you come up with, the odds are that someone will have thought of other interesting things that could be done with it, and if they don't, then your readers will.

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A mysterious hooded figure is seen on campus holding an electronic device with antenna making strange noises. What is she up to? A night-time statue cleaner? A magical portal maintenance maintainer? A gardener?

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Forget Sci Twi. Sunset Scientist is here!

Well, now I have a legitimate reason to hate Sugercoat, beyond just her hairstyle.

On a different note, have some sad:

Hey readers! Got an interesting one for you today. Sort of a call-back, almost, to last week’s post on “pulp” not being a stand-in for “fun.” Once again, brought up by an online discussion I saw in a reading sphere.

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Announcing the launch of the Journal of Equestrian Science, possibly the first publication devoted to the scientific study of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. This was an idea which came out of Needling Haystack's panel at Nightmare Nights Dallas last year, (check out his YouTube channel). It is the also the work of

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Okay, well, a bit. I'm not super focused on on story right now. I've started a bunch, but never really finished anything. But a couple of nights ago I started this:

Two sleepless nights, and only 700 words. But I can't not think about my ideas for it.

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Think back to spring 2013.

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As the title says, Chapter Two: Priority Appleloosa, has now been revised and the update posted.

We get it: It’s daunting to be asked to spend money on a book when you won’t be certain that you’ll like it or not. And when that book is an 1100-page Sci-Fi Epic, and the first title in a trilogy atop that, the hesitation can be brutal indeed.

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The longer chapters continue, with one that I had fun writing as the story led me to places I didn’t expect.

Thanksgiving week proved to be an unexpected time of me using spare time to work on Episodes IV and V. Because of this, I moved the release of Episode III up by a few days.

This episode ended up being one that got me more excited about continuing, and the lead into the coming chapters, which I hope will be met with interest.

Last week saw some exciting news on the experimental search for dark matter. The LUX and PandaX experiments have released some new results. Spoiler alert – they haven’t found it.

Latest results in the hunt for dark matter

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So yeah, unfortunately my old military guy (Air Force I believe to be specific) editor/pre-reader had to drop from Lazarus. Now I'm shit out of luck when it comes to military chatter and or terminology. I know the typical garbage that a regular civvie like myself would know; however, I would prefer to try to have the Lazarus soldiers actually sound like real soldiers and not some Call of Duty/Battlefield shmucks.

Some years ago, as a young physics undergraduate, I knew a sociology student who would come along to a group I would hang out with, accompanied by her extremely cute four-year-old daughter. She was as friendly and talkative as Pinkie Pie—the sociology student, not her little girl, who was too shy to talk and would hide behind a chair if anyone spoke to her—and would talk at great length, to anyone who would listen, about the failings of the social care system, the leadership battles within the

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