the Wood between Worlds

I wrote a post a while ago that, really, was supposed to be about the plausible impossibility of interacting with any sort of "paralle...

SPOILERS AHEAD!  Please don't read if you haven't read both Name of the Wind and Wise Man's Fear . I am going to continue po...

I have always been greatly annoyed by Zeno's paradoxes. The reason why is due mostly to my stubborn pride at being ignored when I...

Unfortunately this post on my blog is the first one people land on when looking for criticism of Harry Potter.  It is not even close to bein...

This is the first in what may be a series of posts speculating on characters and events in the Kingkiller Chronicles. SPOILER DENSE!  Con...

Since C.S. Lewis showed us a world on the other side of a wardrobe (and perhaps before), fantasy and science-fiction stories have abounded w...

I spent several hours the other day looking up some sort of reference to a computer simulation of Aristotelian physics. The thought came ...