New episode: join us as we chat with artist and prop maker Ryan Nagata about his work replicating space suits and making props for movies. Nagata is based in Los Angeles and has made spacesuit replicas for various collectors and museums!
It's ALIVE!!!
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we need to address the end of good-paying jobs for melancholics, like lighthouse keeper or fire tower watchers
people joke about what experiencing even the banalities of modern society would do to a medieval peasant, but here's a German tourist from a small farming village who says some Times Square salsa verde physically incapacitated him gothamist.com/food/theres-...
So far the Lego car and helmet combo is still my favorite.
While watching yesterday’s episode of #Jeopardy, I was suddenly reminded of the Jules Verne-inspired rare book exhibition I curated back in Kansas City…
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#histsci #histSTM
#scifi #trivia
Always happy to have comrades in tactically disorienting arms. 🙏
Found a good business name
I was wondering if it was too niche. 😆 very happy to have found my people.
I want to hear ALL about your adventures when we next meet. I’ll trade Olympic stories for Antarctic ones.
Ngl I’m high key excited to check out the new camo exhibition at the spy museum in the next few months.
Oh yes absolutely! Not a bad livery by any means.
With the Sephora livery, maybe it will be difficult for the other drivers to estimate her range, speed, and heading.
For Women in Horror Month — an Iranian Horror movie.
A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night is an Iranian vampire Western written and directed by Ana Lily Amirpour.
Thank you!! 🙏 likewise
On Georges Méliès’s re-discovered 1897 sci-fi short, and the enduring anxiety of technological replacement:
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Seeing people deriding The Bride! for being too heavy-handed in its feminist messaging on the same day The Hollywood Reporter releases an interview with Harvey Weinstein from prison is giving me whiplash.
You should go to the Noguchi’s New York exhibit at the Noguchi Museum, but if you can’t — they commissioned animations of what playing on his unbuilt playgrounds would have been like www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/03/isam...
I sometimes worry that too many people think being a good critic means being a self-righteous dick about every little thing and I think far too many miss the point that you can't critique anything if you don't know how to love something.
New grad students often adopt a stance of hypercriticism as a shortcut to seeming savvy.
When I was one, Nick Salvatore told us he didn't like "shit-on-the-book seminars" so we would instead spend our time talking about what *worked* in various texts to see what we could learn from other authors.
DC friends: if you’re coming to Awesome Con this weekend, come say hi! My first Solar System Ambassador event of 2026 is a talk on exoplanets in fact & science fiction! My talk is 10:15 AM on Saturday. I’ll link info below.
Hailey is so awesome. Please help out a brilliant Brazilian translator and sci-fi writer who just needs a little bit more $$ to care for her sick mum.
*gasp*
Thank you!
#jstor #resources #citeyoursources
Brutal, I’m sorry to hear. :( I once wrote to an independent museum asking about internships while I was in grad school. Two years later, someone at that org replied to my initial email calling me by the wrong name and asking if I was still interested in volunteer opportunities. 🙃
Many of y’all asked how you can support and donate to our female athletes and the celebrations,,, so I created a Go Fund Me. I’m hopeful this can have an impact beyond the weekend and help those that represent the best of the US
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Our interview with @herbbaker.bsky.social about his incredible career with NASA, his memoir, and his insights into mentorship is in the running for PodRadar’s episode of the week! Vote here if you’d like to participate!
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If you like LEGO and you appreciate airplanes, or you like LEGO and want to make me very happy, please vote for this LEGO Ideas entry.
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And just think: this is the mood here before the entire Acela corridor gets snowed in again
