No doubt you all remember my Nebula-winning story, “The Green Leopard Plague,” which revolves around a contagious virus which allows people to take energy direct from the sun. Well, guess what? I’ve scored another hit on the WJW Predict-O-Meter! According to this video, “scientists” (as they are always called in these presentations) have worked out […]

From 1980, Olympia in Greece, home of the original Olympic Games. The row of plinths on the left memorialize those caught cheating. Their home cities were expected to purchase a bronze statue of Zeus to be placed on one of these plinths, which was then carved with the name of the cheater, the name of […]

So here I am in Cambridge in 1987, punting along behind the Cambridge Backs. I hadn’t punted in 12 years, but my skills (such as they were) came back quickly enough, and I hardly collided with anything at all. It was nice the the river had a gravel bottom, unlike the muck at the bottom […]

This is a photograph of the 2012 solar eclipse in the South Pacific. We were on a ship a couple days’ voyage north of New Zealand, and it was following the track of totality across the water. Unfortunately the sea wasn’t completely still. I had set the camera for a long exposure, the ship rolled, […]