Space Debris in Gravity and Planetes
In space, your unresolved baggage is literally coming around to kill you.
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Posts by Guest Writer on Overthinking It
A Teraflop Trajectory: Arrow’s Hidden World of Nanotechnology, Calculus, and Population Dynamics
Sometimes mangled computer science terminology is just mangled computer science terminology. Other times it’s evidence of NANOBOTS!
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The Evolution of Escapism in Romantic Comedy
Changes in male and female income in romantic comedies over time… with a graph!
Sport Court: Is Biathlon a Sport?
The Sport Court reconvenes to challenge a the claim of another Winter Olympic event to “sport” status: Biathlon.
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Revision: Impossible—The Anxiety of Influence in Spy Films 1992-2002
Sneakers, Mission:Impossible, The Bourne Identity, and their legacy.
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She, Her, Hers
Who is Spike Jonze’s “Her” really about?
Philip Seymour Hoffman, 1967-2014
A remembrance of the great actor from one of the many who know him as “that guy from that movie.”
Reader, I Buried Him: Jane Eyre’s Battles with Monsters
What do a vampire, a zombie, and a werewolf tell us about how society’s fears have changed over three centuries?
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Who. Doctor Who.
What makes two of the longest running franchises of the last 50 years uniquely British.
Doofenshmirtz as Gilgamesh: Mythic Bromance and the Humanist Ethic of “Phineas and Ferb”
How Dr. Doofenshmirtz and Perry the Platypus from “Phineas and Ferb” reflect the humanism and the bromance of “The Epic of Gilgamesh.”
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