Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration of the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel by Michio Kaku
My review
rating: 4 of 5 starsI became interested in the book after hearing an interview with the author on Slice of SciFi. Its an easy read and goes into [...]
According to That Book: …of Perfectly Useless Information:
If you farted continously for 6 years and 9 months, enough wind would be produced to equal the energy of an atomic bomb.
I wanted to post this before the super bowl where we had planned to eat wings and drink beer and later produce wind energy. I [...]
This time in comic form!
STEPHEN KING BREAKS NEW GROUND AT MARVEL WITH ORIGINAL COMIC SERIES BASED ON HIS EPIC THE DARK TOWER
It looks like they’ll be following the young Roland when he started out his journey. Hopefully we’ll see Cuthbert and Alain.
Also, this marks the first time Stephen King has done original content for [...]
The Economist had an article on the social impact of video games titled Chasing the Dream. Its been posted elsewhere on the net before me, but I have to quote this one paragraph because its so good.
Another analogy can be made between games and music—specifically, with the emergence of rock and roll in the [...]
In a previous post I mentioned that the end was near for the Dark Tower series from Stephen King. It came out on 9/21 and I finished reading it this past Tuesday morning 9/28. A little bit slower then I thought, but its a big book coming in at 845 pages. It [...]
The end is near! On Sept. 21st to be exact. I think I’ll start at the beginning this weekend.
The Dark Tower web site and print advirtising used “The end is near, start at the beginning” last year when they re-released the earlier books. Its been stuck in my head since then.
Now its [...]
