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2014

The Last Revelation of Gla’aki, by Ramsey Campbelloriginal ↗
13 Oct 2014
Paris: City of lights and cosmic raysoriginal ↗
9 Oct 2014
Kitchen Science Lab for Kids, by Liz Heineckeoriginal ↗
9 Oct 2014
Nobel Prize roundup: It’s all about the optics!original ↗
8 Oct 2014
“Count Like an Egyptian” over at The Finch & Pea!original ↗
6 Oct 2014
Coming soon: The Complete Guide to Science Blogging!original ↗
6 Oct 2014
Our Lady of Pain, by John Blackburnoriginal ↗
5 Oct 2014
20 books that have stayed with meoriginal ↗
30 Sept 2014
Bertram Mitford’s In the Whirl of the Risingoriginal ↗
28 Sept 2014
How anti-vaccination is like a nuclear bomboriginal ↗
22 Sept 2014
Dr. SkySkull’s Monday Cavalcade of Interesting Science Stuff – September 15, 2014original ↗
15 Sept 2014
Dr. SkySkull’s Monday Cavalcade of Interesting Science Stuff – September 8, 2014original ↗
8 Sept 2014
Physics demonstrations: Faraday diskoriginal ↗
27 Aug 2014
7 years of blogging!original ↗
16 Aug 2014
Fred Hoyle’s “The Black Cloud”original ↗
3 Aug 2014
Emily Carroll’s Through the Woodsoriginal ↗
26 Jul 2014
H.G. Wells’ stories about BUGSoriginal ↗
16 Jul 2014
Physics demonstrations: Geiger counteroriginal ↗
11 Jul 2014
Cloaking from earthquakes?original ↗
3 Jul 2014
The Lost Skeleton Walks Among Us! (hopefully)original ↗
20 Jun 2014
The Giant’s Shoulders #72: The Seven Wondersoriginal ↗
16 Jun 2014
Help me help you!original ↗
10 Jun 2014
Love is the Law, by Nick Mamatasoriginal ↗
31 May 2014
A Michael Faraday primer for COSMOS!original ↗
11 May 2014
Death by ball lightningoriginal ↗
7 May 2014
Jack Cady’s The Welloriginal ↗
29 Apr 2014
Physics demonstrations: The Phantom Lightbulboriginal ↗
17 Apr 2014
How many quarks would a charm quark charm if a charm quark could charm quarks?original ↗
11 Apr 2014
The House of the Wolf, by Basil Copperoriginal ↗
8 Apr 2014
My appearance on WCNC television!original ↗
8 Apr 2014
The Curse of “Asshole Ra”original ↗
1 Apr 2014
Curves… in… spaaaace! (1890)original ↗
25 Mar 2014
John Blackburn’s The Cyclops Gobletoriginal ↗
10 Mar 2014
The Open Laboratory 2013 is out!original ↗
7 Mar 2014
1895: Cats meddle in geophysicsoriginal ↗
4 Mar 2014
Larry Blamire’s Tales of the Callamo Mountainsoriginal ↗
17 Feb 2014
How *do* cats land on their feet when falling, anyway?original ↗
6 Feb 2014
Basil Copper’s The Black Deathoriginal ↗
26 Jan 2014
Infinite series: not quite as weird as some would sayoriginal ↗
18 Jan 2014
The Case of the Telephone in His Hat (1894)original ↗
17 Jan 2014
Arthur C. Clarke’s Rendezvous with Ramaoriginal ↗
12 Jan 2014
Thomas Hinde’s The Day the Call Cameoriginal ↗
6 Jan 2014
Infinity is weird: what does it all mean?original ↗
3 Jan 2014

2013

Laird Barron’s The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us Alloriginal ↗
17 Dec 2013
The people at Twitter are fucking morons (updated)original ↗
13 Dec 2013
Weird fiction Tuesday: Trypophobiaoriginal ↗
11 Dec 2013
John Wyndham’s “Web”original ↗
8 Dec 2013
Infinity is weird: to infinity, and beyond!original ↗
5 Dec 2013
Basil Copper’s “And Afterward, the Dark”original ↗
29 Nov 2013
Infinity is weird: what’s bigger than big?original ↗
25 Nov 2013
Basil Copper’s “From Evil’s Pillow”original ↗
17 Nov 2013
Infinity is weird: how big is infinity?original ↗
15 Nov 2013
Halloween Treats 2013original ↗
27 Oct 2013
H.G. Wells’ zombiesoriginal ↗
24 Oct 2013
“How the Ray Gun Got Its Zap,” by Stephen Wilk (Updated)original ↗
22 Oct 2013
Basil Copper’s “Necropolis” and “Into the Silence”original ↗
16 Oct 2013
My appearance on WCCB TV!original ↗
10 Oct 2013
Communication via vortices?original ↗
2 Oct 2013
A brief NPR interview with me on invisibility!original ↗
27 Sept 2013
John Blackburn’s “A Scent of New-Mown Hay” and “The Flame and the Wind”original ↗
25 Sept 2013
Dr. SkySkull talking invisibility in the News & Observer!original ↗
22 Sept 2013
1842: Jean-Daniel Colladon guides light with wateroriginal ↗
17 Sept 2013
Weird Fiction Monday: Treatmentoriginal ↗
10 Sept 2013
Weird fiction Monday: Fish in the Seaoriginal ↗
3 Sept 2013
The Challenge from Beyond, with Moore, Merritt, Lovecraft, Howard, and Longoriginal ↗
2 Sept 2013
Supersymmetry in optics?original ↗
23 Aug 2013
Hummingbirds at home!original ↗
16 Aug 2013
Weird Fiction Monday: Head Gamesoriginal ↗
12 Aug 2013
A few intriguing Valancourt Books releases!original ↗
11 Aug 2013
Cat-turning: the 19th-century scientific cat-dropping craze!original ↗
27 Jul 2013
Richard Le Gallienne’s “The Worshipper of the Image” (1899)original ↗
21 Jul 2013
Simple fun with polarizers!original ↗
16 Jul 2013
Basil Copper’s The Great White Spaceoriginal ↗
6 Jul 2013
My favorite video games of all time (an incomplete list)original ↗
1 Jul 2013
R.I.P. Richard Matheson (1926-2013)original ↗
26 Jun 2013
Ted Kosmatka’s Prophet of Bonesoriginal ↗
19 Jun 2013
The Giant’s Shoulders #60, part 1, is out!original ↗
17 Jun 2013
Hiding from time? New design of a “temporal cloak” makes wavesoriginal ↗
11 Jun 2013
George Stokes on science and knowledge (1877)original ↗
7 Jun 2013
George Gabriel Stokes in love! (1857)original ↗
4 Jun 2013
The Kaye effect after dark!original ↗
21 May 2013
The Giant’s Shoulders #59 is out!original ↗
17 May 2013
A gallery of my fantasy miniaturesoriginal ↗
16 May 2013
All about rainbows, double rainbows, circular rainbows!original ↗
14 May 2013
Jack Finney’s The Body Snatchersoriginal ↗
7 May 2013
Physics demonstrations: Chladni patternsoriginal ↗
3 May 2013
Physics demonstrations: cloaking device?original ↗
25 Apr 2013
John Blackburn’s The Face of the Lionoriginal ↗
24 Apr 2013
J.B. Priestley’s Benightedoriginal ↗
18 Apr 2013
The Giant’s Shoulders #58 is out!original ↗
18 Apr 2013
April 10, 1815: Mount Tambora blows uporiginal ↗
10 Apr 2013
Colin Wilson’s The Philosopher’s Stoneoriginal ↗
6 Apr 2013
Another video of the Kaye effectoriginal ↗
31 Mar 2013
Physics demonstrations: A short discussion of the Kaye effectoriginal ↗
30 Mar 2013
Vimana: a sci-fi short film kickstarteroriginal ↗
28 Mar 2013
The Club Dumas, by Arturo Pérez-Reverteoriginal ↗
20 Mar 2013
John Blackburn’s “Nothing but the Night”original ↗
18 Mar 2013
From blazing skies to bogus shamrock: The Giant’s Shoulders #57 is out!original ↗
18 Mar 2013
Physics demonstrations: invisibility on the cheap!original ↗
15 Mar 2013
The Science Online 2013 official music video is out!original ↗
4 Mar 2013
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