The Adventures of Roberta X

      So, Saturday, I had plans: laundry (every Saturday), a class, with SF writer Mary Robinette Kowal (the Lady Astronaut series ) and a ...

      I don't know how many of us need to hear this, but, look: wanting something to be true doesn't make it true.  No matter how ba...

      SF writer Mary Robinette Kowal ( The Lady Astronaut Of Mars and related books, among others) had a two-hour class or symposium today...

      When I learned that both vanilla and chocolate are species native to the warmer parts of the Americas, I began to wonder if the Aztec...

      It's my third reading of William Gibson's The Peripheral .  I'd read it not long after it was first published and again af...

      Yes, another food experiment.  We ended up ordering dinner in last night because I was feeling under the weather, a milder version of ...

      Yesterday, I got the fifth -- bivalent -- COVID-19 vaccine, which is optimized for the most recent dominant strains.  I've had all...

      When I mentioned the Nolan chart yesterday, I looked it up.  The Wikipedia article includes links to similar notions, one of which is ...

      Well, so what?  Hooray, I get to eat lunch alone, and read my book without interruptions.  But social pressure weighs heavily on many ...

      Some examples are more wrong than others.  Take the School Board candidate in Zionsville, Indiana, who answered a voter's question...

      Let's see -- an expansionist autocrat is waging war to "take back" territory to which his country has a far less tenable...

      As disparaged as it is in this day and age where you're got to be "strongly for" or "strongly against" every s...