“Flawless” is not a word to toss about lightly. That is not to say that we here at Analog Nation are, for want of a better term, perfection snobs. We have no problem enjoying stuff that may have an element of lack to it — movies, books, sandwiches, whatever. It’s pretty hard to get...
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“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” -Arthur C. Clarke, 1917-2008 “Seriously though, what you guys are doing right now has me tripping balls, and I’ve only been dead for three years.” -ibid. Let’s say we had access to a time-voyage device. If we went back and grabbed Benjamin Franklin, brought him to...
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There is calamitous news on the breakfast front, people. Breakfast is sacrosanct here at Analog Nation, so I would not throw around a word like “calamitous” lightly. Apparently I’m fine throwing around “sacrosanct,” though. At any rate, the news isn’t good. Bananas, it seems, are not long for this world. To understand how this...
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“That we are the only part of the cosmos possessing what we are pleased to call mind is so earth-centred a supposition, that it recalls the other earth-centred view once so devoutly held, that our little globe was the point about which the whole company of heaven was good enough to turn. Indeed, there...
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At the moment, I happen to be looking at a list of endangered species. I know, I know — I really shouldn’t be partying so hard on a weeknight, but you have to admit it’s a lot better than the two hours I once spent reading about airline disasters on Wikipedia. Looking at the...
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A few weekends ago, I caught an elevator just as a woman was getting on with her two kids. The younger one had a balloon, tied with ribbon to the frame of her stroller. She looked to be around three. She had the ribbon in her hand and was tugging on it, making the...
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