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In 1950 Cousteau acquired a retired 66-ft. minesweeper named Calypso and turned it into the floating oceanographic laboratory on which he would sail the seven seas for more than four decades. That legendary vessel sank after a freak accident in Singapore harbor in 1996; a state-of-the-art...
The Wright brothers and their invention, then, sparked a revolution as far-reaching as the industrial and digital revolutions. But that revolution did not come about by luck or accident. It was vision, quiet resolve and the application of scientific methodology that enabled Orville and Wilbur to carry the human...
Science fiction boasts an impressive predictive track record--if you squint hard and ignore most of the evidence. Atom bombs, spacecraft, comsats, credit cards, jukeboxes, waterbeds, gene splicing--they all appeared in science fiction first, well before showing up at the mall or on the military base. But science fiction...
If science fiction outlived the OTA, it also gets more girls, gold and glory than its other big rival, professional corporate futurology. Corporate trend spotting, after all, is limited to gizmos that might conceivably make someone money. Science fiction, in its sleep and entirely by accident, makes absurd amounts of...
A double dose of Ms. McBeal. In the first show, Ally (Calista Flockhart) lands in jail for wearing short skirts, Elaine makes condoms with customized phrases ("Take a number" for Ally), and Elaine's friend files suit against a feminist mag after being fired for being Baptist. In the second...