HELLO dear readers, this is PINKIE PIE, your Pony Friend Forever, Party Planner Extra-ordinaire, and fully qualified Nuclear Reactor Engineer. I'm writing this blog post as Pineta is away this week, which means I have a chance to tell you about sub-atomic physics and my favourite particle the neutron.

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This week, we send our team of flying pony geoscientists to Iceland to report on the news there.

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I created this fictional textbook extract after getting a writing challenge from Pureheart 352, and I rather like the result. While it doesn't really count as a story, I figured it would make a good first blog post.

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Anyone connected with the world of High Energy Particle Physics, or anyone who reads lots of popular science articles, may have picked up the news that something interesting has been seen at CERN. Maybe.

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Hey again. The second part for the riff for The Moon's Wrath by Dolphy Blue Drake is finished. You know, there are some ideas I really like in this fic. Particularly the relationship between Nightfall and Wishful. I like their father-daughter relationship. It's cute if a bit overdone. I wish the show did something like that with Twi and Spike, but it is a kids show I suppose. The only part I can't get over is changing everything for no reason. I've never been able to remember anyone's new name

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Surely the author won’t mind me using the logo of his comic to promote it, right? Right?

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As of today, I am the founder of The Changeling Research Group.
"What is that?" you might reasonably ask.
The Changeling Research Group is a group —no surprises there— of people who love changelings, science, or any combination of the two. It's a group dedicated to the science and love of changelings.

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This week I received my Friendship Games DVD, which, thanks to the tantalizing post-credits ending of Rainbow Rocks, I watched with considerable anticipation. Of course this film was going to destroy my personal theories about the new Twilight Sparkle.

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If there weren’t already enough reasons this year to write a story about apocalyptic visions of a world consumed by darkness, the award of the Nobel Prize in Physics to Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel, and Andrea Ghez gave me the excuse to write something about black holes. It took me a few weeks to finish it, but I am pleased to have got it done ready for Nightmare Night.

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Potatoes and Space Travel. Two things that very few people would associate with each other. At least that is until a few years ago when published an interesting book about a marooned astronaut that wound up becoming a best seller and later, a highly popular film.

I speak, of course, about The Martian starring Matt Damon with the story written by Andy Weir.

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Hello again writers! It’s Monday (or Friday, if you’re a Patreon Supporter), so it’s time for another installment of Being a Better Writer!

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Izzy Moonbow explains the principle of spin precession and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance to Sunny Starscout with the aid of a tennis ball.

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Hello readers! Yes, I know I must apologize for the lateness of this post in coming online. But I had a really good reason, one that I think many of you will sympathize with: I was up extremely late last night reading a book. Which I then finished this afternoon as soon as I could.

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First of all, watch this if you haven't already.

So basically, according to our current models, the universe will expand forever, all the stars will eventually die, and black holes will be the only noticeable things left. But of course, even black holes are not eternal; over time, they evaporate, and finally disappear in a burst of radiation. The last black holes can be expected to evaporate somewhere shy of a googol years from now.

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Hi again, everypony!

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Welcome back, writers! Monday is upon us once more, and you know what that means! Being a Better Writer is here!

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About that big discovery last week.

This is one which we have been expecting for some time. I first read about the LIGO experiment some twenty years ago when it had just started construction and I was a young student dreaming about doing a summer placement in California—which turned out to be just a dream, but it was fun perusing the lists of student projects on offer at Caltech.

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Chapter 6 of Fallout Equestria: Black Cat is done. I hope you like it. I decided to make Break a more unconventional Fallout hero and one of my rules that she would avoid using guns. She would be forced to find other ways to save her skin. Besides, Break hates gun. Particularly since they are usually used to threaten or shoot at her.

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I'm half watching Twin Peaks, and half writing What They Expect to Give. Waiting for my son to fall asleep. I want to just focus 100% on writing, but because I'm pretty sure I'm going to be interrupted at any moment, I don't want to get too absorbed into my work. I get VERY crabby when someone snaps me out of my rhythm...

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I've been laughing for months at this post, not for the reasons I should. The apple and the pear are no longer mere "friends," my good commenter.

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