My desktop background images change from time to time as I come across new amazing science-related images. For a while, there was a lull so my cat Simba (from the Simba-file on the mindcast) got to stare back at me in her recent ultra-cute glamour shot in front of the fireplace.

Well move over, kitty, it’s time for the Z-machine. Read More…

Episode 29 is up!

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Episode 28 is now uploaded!

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(From The California Aggie.)

Possessing genuine precognizant abilities is a feat that no human has been able to demonstrate, although many have claimed it. Journalism is about reporting facts and allowing readers to draw their own conclusions. The California Aggie reported that mentalist Adrian Saint correctly predicted the Super Bowl, but The Aggie and its readers have many reasons to be skeptical about it. Read More…

Ok SciFi geeks, now’s your chance to figure out which SciFi starship crew you belong on. Will it be Serenity, Deep Space Nine, Babylon 5, or Bebop? Click through to find out which crew I was placed firmly into. Read More…

Episode 27 is up!Download it here. Read More…

Many churches take a stand on the issue of evolution. Fundamentalists chuck their scriptures at science, and more progressive denominations think of their stories of creation as metaphorical descriptions of the process of evolution. But what are we to make of the fact that the Mormon church, that the Latter Day Saints have a position of no position on evolution? Read More…

Last Saturday I was treated to a bit of news. While waiting for a burger to be grilled, I spied the front page article of the Sacramento Bee newspaper. See: Levee emergency declared. What the..? Why this and why now? Read More…

There are hundreds of thousands of people in the Sacramento area, and we see thousands of people every day we venture out. So it may only be a mathematical consequence, a convergence of various chances that results in the inevitability that we may run into someone that we know, however unexpected it may be. Nevertheless, our human minds seem to ignore mathematical realities when the unlikeliest of people turn up. At Trader Joe’s, I ran into Michael Mercury.

Who? Read More…