Emotional Resonance & Rocket Launchers with Scott Nance
Ive got to let you in on an ugly secret: I dont really much like Disney movies. And with a 6-year-old at home, Ive seen more than my share.While the plots are often good, I seldom find much there to take away to make the film stick in my head. "Aladdin," "Finding Nemo," "Cars" - theyre all the sam ...
Read MoreSciFriday with Michael Hinman
If you read the headline on this column, then you probably think I'm going somewhere. Likely, on some type of aircraft.Well, the headline is only half right. I'm going on vacation (fresh off of turning a year older), and while I'll still be around doing light work during that time, I'll be getting s ...
Read MoreWayne's Worlds with Wayne Hall
Where I work, there are a number of genre (including comics) fans. There are enough of us to make the others wonder what it is like to look forward to the weekly trip to the comics store and SciFi Fridays.So, when the final seasons of two of my all-time favorite shows, "Justice League Unlimited" and ...
Read MoreSciFriday with Michael Hinman
Being a journalist for as long as I have, I believe I have become desensitized to the fact that I am desensitized.I know that sounds funny, but it's actually true. I used to have an awareness to the fact that I am desensitized to many things that happen, but nowadays, I almost have to be knocked bac ...
Read MoreThe Trek Within with Brian Meskimen
As people, we all deal with many important questions through our lives. Perhaps one of the most important of these is the question of identity.We all struggle with it at one time or another — granted in different ways and at different times, but we all deal with it. Identity is a key concept ...
Read MoreSciFriday with Michael Hinman
Sometimes I have to take a step back and take a view of the world as if I'm not in it. It's difficult to do, because of the obvious, but every once in a while I find it almost fate-like to see life -- and even death -- play out the way it does.As I was planning this week's SciFriday column (and you ...
Read MoreThere's a hole in the world without Kurt Vonnegut
Listen:Kurt Vonnegut has come unstuck in time.The dark-humored, Mark Twainesque science-fiction satirist, who described himself as "A fourth-generation German-American now living in easy circumstances on Cape Cod (and smoking too much), who as an American infantry scout : as a prisoner of war, witne ...
Read MoreSciFriday with Michael Hinman
With Tom Cruise finding some new couches to jump on and J.J. Abrams spending all his free time working on the next Star Trek movie, one has to wonder: What's going to happen with Paramount's Mission: Impossible franchise?OK, maybe you aren't thinking that. I mean, "Mission: Impossible III" was a pre ...
Read MoreThe Trek Within with Brian Meskimen debuts
My name is Brian, and Im a Star Trek fan.Whew, there I said it.Just one simple sentence, right? Well yeah, but lets be honest, there are many stigmas associated with being a Star Trek fan, stigmas which I have attempted to disassociate myself by staying in the proverbial Star Trek closet.Sure, in th ...
Read MoreREVIEW: Alan Stanley Blair takes a look at the Season 3 finale
The following review contains MAJOR SPOILERS for the "Battlestar Galactica" episode "Crossroads, Part 2."In the first year, "Battlestar Galactica" ended in such a drastically dark note - the fleet was in shambles, crash survivors were pinned down on the planet of the gods and the then Cmdr. Adama ( ...
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