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Freeman Dyson

Steve Hsu points us to an Atlantic article on Freeman Dyson. Jerry Pournelle says that Dyson is the sanest man he knows. A high complement since the two of them disagree on a great number of things. Gordon Freeman was named after Dyson as well. This article is far more

A Capsule History of English SciFi and Fantasy

From John C Wright comes a capsule history of science fiction and fantasy in English. A reader asks a fascinating question. He speaks of a recent history of science fiction he’d read, and says the editors “laid the blame of ghetto-izing science fiction at John W. Campbell’s feet.

Determinism

Too True

Percival's Planet Book Review

Percival's Planet Book Review

Percival's Planet by Michael Byers $27.00; 414 pages Percival's Planet is a fictionalization of the discovery of Pluto by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930. This is more historically inspired fiction than historical fiction. This is inevitable, since there is nothing dramatic about spending months flipping through

Now where is the Engineer to turn this into a product?

Ptolemy's Map of Germany Decoded

Ptolemy's Map of Germany Decoded

The Romans had better data than we thought. A team of researchers was able to correct Ptolemy's map by determining what kinds of errors crept in and then mathmatically distorting the map to account for the mistakes. h/t r/h/e