the Wood between Worlds

 I remember my first few years as a grad student, a professor reassuring my friend and I that no physicist ever gained true expertise in the...

I have recently had to write and turn in my dissertation.  To do this, I had to adhere, at least somewhat, to the stylistic whims of Kate Tu...

I drew this on a white board at my  last school, in 2013.  Nine years later and I slayed the dragon. I recently finished my PhD in physics. ...

 I recently reread this favorite of mine.  My copy is an old, worn paperback I purchased at a used bookstore in the middle of nowhere in Geo...

Once you know how cold reading works, it's basically impossible to take mediums, astrologers, palm readers, or any other kind of sooth-s...

Orcs are a fantasy monster.  While Tolkien may have standardized them as the basic low-level mook hounding the protagonists, the idea of the...

Smaug, from the only feature-length adaptation of the Hobbit My dad is a Tolkien nerd who grew up in the 70s.  Therefore my dad played D...