The Lippard Blog

In Stanislaw Lem's book, The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age (1974 English translation, page numbers from the 1985 Harvest/HBJ ...

While reading Ross Anderson's massive tome, Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Systems (second edition), I came acros...

Science fiction has been a popular genre at least since Jules Verne’s 19th century work, and arguably longer still. But can it have practica...

Vocab Malone has put up his first post arguing for the position that "the unborn human embryo is a full person at the moment of concep...

Yesterday I heard Joel Garreau speak again at ASU, as part of a workshop on Plausibility put on by the Consortium for Science, Policy, and O...

This is what we need more of in apocalyptic future science fiction-- rampaging herds of feral hogs : There are thought to be between 4m an...

A short conversation between Orson Welles and H.G. Wells (MP3) aired live on KTSA radio in San Antonio on October 28, 1940. The main subje...

An amusing set of coincidences: On Saturday, July 8, Respectful Insolence posted a great video of William Shatner's 1978 performance o...

Speaking of old science fiction movies, there's a cool toy available from the Hammacher Schlemmer catalog , if you have a spare $50K.

From Pharyngula . Bold the ones you've seen. * The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension! * Akira * Alien * Al...