Intelligent Materials

This will blow your mind! Beyond 3D printing…

Building the Future – Soon!

Futuristic astronaut girl in space suit and planet

Kindle Vella is a new Amazon program for serial fiction: stories told in small chapters, where you as the reader can decide whether to buy and read the next chapter. It’s optimized for busy people reading on mobile… Read More

Boop Kitty!

This is Jerry, my Boop Kitty. He likes to curl up in the crook of my arm, sometimes on his back. He reaches up gently and boops my nose. I don’t have any boop pictures, because reaching for… Read More

National Comics Publications, Inc. v. Fawcett Publications, Inc.

C. C. Beck - Cover from Whiz Comics #2, February 1940

Writers should know that ideas can’t be copyrighted, only the tangible expression of those ideas. The words of a story. The notes of a song. The lines of a drawing. If those are substantially similar in the eyes… Read More

The Last Campaign Wins the AudioFiles Earphones Award!

The Last Campaign won an AudioFiles Earphones award! Congratulations, Rebecca Mozo! And thank you for bringing Rosalia to life.

Dispelling the Myths of Nuclear Energy

(Live Lecture) Simple, common-sense facts about nuclear energy.

About Blue Collar Science

The motto of Blue Collar Space is: The future doesn’t just happen… Somebody has to build it. That’s going to take grand, audacious science and engineering, which I find very exciting! This is a page to collect some… Read More

Write What You Don’t Know

A Student of the University of British Columbia studying for final exams.

“Write what you know” is trite advice. It’s a good example of my Tools, Not Rules philosophy: it’s useful to draw from what you know to inspire your writing (indeed, I think it’s unavoidable); but you shouldn’t limit… Read More

Chef Salad from Perfect Pizza

If the pizza is perfect at Perfect Pizza in Hopkins MI (and it’s pretty good!), what’s better than perfect? The Chef Salad. That’s a large, which by itself is enough for two or more meals. The vegetables are… Read More

While I’m Deep in Code…

…the boys are hard at work!