Life Signs Detected
I love good sci-fi. Hell, I love bad sci-fi, but sometimes I make the mistake of thinking too much about it and then I start to get grouchy. Today I’m grouchy about detecting life. In almost any space-faring sci-fi story, there is a moment when someone pushes a button, looks …
Top 9 Music Video Dance Routines
I learned to dance largely from watching music videos and copying what I saw. That was often an exercise in frustration because the standard format for a music video has a cut about once a second, making it impossible to follow the movements. Even videos with impressive dance numbers cut …
Generations: The Story of Women in Neutrino Research (Women in Science 78).
The most powerful force in the study of physics is not gravity or electromagnetism. It is not love, or courage. It is accounting. “But that doesn’t quite add up” has produced heartache and exhilaration in equal measure, and the tantalization created by blank space in the universe’s checkbook has pushed …
Miniature Adventures
Hello! Wowza, it has been a while… I am pretty crap at this whole writing thing (I’m glad she hasn’t but if I were Amy I woulda kicked me out on my butt a long time ago… Thanks for being the best, Amy!) Ok, so with that apology out of …
5 More DragonCon cosplayers you need to follow on Instagram
I was recently featured on The Daily Dot as one of 5 cosplayers from Dragon Con to follow on Instagram. It is enormously flattering to be picked out of the thousands of costumes at such a huge convention filled with incredible skill and talent. While I was prancing about in …
Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men Review and Cosplay
Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men is goddam delightful. It is fundamentally a podcast about the X-men. However, there is so much supporting material in the form of companion blog posts and videos that it has become something more of an institution. The show is exactly what it says on …
Mad Art Cast: Migraine Auras and Art
Hello and welcome to another fabulous episode of Mad Art Cast. This episode is about the science and art of migraines. Scroll down to listen or find us on iTunes! Cheers! Show notes: Here is a cool image of by Juno of Jupiter, google for more! Here is a link …
Mad Art Lab at Dragon Con!
Mad Art Lab will be invading Dragon Con next week! That’s right, Dragon Con is next week. *commences flailing and trying to sew all the things at once, ends up in a ball of fabric, worbla scraps, and disgruntled cats in front of the computer* For those of you who …