the Wood between Worlds

The universe is an awfully big place.  Granted, most of it is empty space.  But within that empty space, there are trillions of stars.  Mayb...

A few weeks ago, Professor Ben Zuckerman spoke at my school. He is one of the editors of the popular book "Extraterrestrials: Where A...

In case you aren't familiar with it the Voynich Manuscript  (pictured at left) is currently one of the bigger linguistic mysteries out...

In days past and in lands forgotten - certainly far before either you or I were born - there in that far-away land stood a great kingdom.  ...

It pays sometimes to ask yourself the question, what would change my mind?  To what extent could my mind be changed?  What alternatives wou...

Two years ago, I wrote a post about one of the icons of my childhood, the Berenstein Bears.  Except, as I learned, they aren't called ...

Tales of characters finding themselves hundreds of years in the past or the future are as old as the human imagination.  In recent ye...