Finally I brought myself to get a proper domain and to resurrect my blog ‘xirdalium.’ Not that it was dead and gone, but definitely in an undead state. The reasons for that were manifold. The first category of reasons are …Continue reading →
This is the second instance of my blog ‘xirdalium.’ The first instance for years ran fine on a university server, but then technical problems became overwhelming. Ye ole ‘xirdalium’ meanwhile is no more. Hence I decided to give it a …Continue reading →
… the dead will walk the earth Do you know this experience when, after a certain period of wallowing in escapism by swallowing heaps of fiction and movies, let’s say e.g. cyberpunk material …, the consciousness-contents induced by digesting fiction …Continue reading →
WASHINGTON — NASA will hold a news conference at 2 p.m. EST on Thursday, Dec. 2, to discuss an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life. Astrobiology is the study of the origin, evolution, distribution …Continue reading →
The objectivity and integrity of contemporary science faces many threats. A cause of particular concern is the growing competition for research funding and academic positions, which, combined with an increasing use of bibliometric parameters to evaluate careers (e.g. number of …Continue reading →
There is a brilliant article by Ed Barnes at FoxNews: ‘Mystery surrounds cyber missile that crippled Iran’s nuclear weapons ambitions.’ When I first read it, at the least when a third into the text, I would have thought it to …Continue reading →
Artist Murray Groat has created four wonderfully atmospheric Hergé meets Lovecraft covers for Adventures of Tintin albums that sadly will never be. There of course is a vast tradition of homage-à-Tintin covers, often linked to current affairs, like Zartosht Soltani’s …Continue reading →
La jetée (English: The Jetty or The Pier) (1962) is a 28-minute black and white science fiction film by Chris Marker. Constructed almost entirely from still photos, it tells the story of a post-nuclear war experiment in time travel. It …Continue reading →