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The Royal Mint Sends A Coin to Space To Honor David Bowie’s ‘Starman’
It is the first time a UK coin has gone into space, and pays homage to David Bowie’s space inspired hits including Starman, Life on Mars, and Space Oddity.
Casting Update – ‘The Lord of the Rings’ on Amazon Prime
A big list of names are added to the cast of the new J.R.R. Tolkein ‘Lord of the Rings’ prequel series.
A Step Closer to True Star Trek Style Tricorders – A Handheld DNA Sequence Analyzer
An iPhone, a thousand dollar pocket DNA sequencer and some open source software makes the world’s first mobile genome sequence analyzer.
Hayabusa-2’s Asteroid Sample Returns to Earth In “Perfect” Shape
The Japanese probe, sent to the asteroid Ryugu to collect some samples, returns with the goods intact.
Electronic Music & Particle Physics Meet in “Electric Storm” (Moog Music, CERN)
Composer Dorit Chrysler and filmmaker Marie Losier give new meaning to underground art in “Electric Storm,” a short theremin-centric film shot 30+ stories below the Earth’s surface in the heart of CERN’s Large Hardon Collider.
On the ‘Event Horizon’: Frank Zanca’s ‘Lords of LA’
Tune in today, Saturday, at 4 pm Pacific, 7 pm Eastern when hosts Susan Fox and Gene Turnbow welcome producer, screenwriter and fantasy author Frank Zanca to discuss his upcoming graphic novel, Lords of LA
7 Reasons Star Trek is Stupid (by a Long-Time Fan)
“I don’t always violate the Prime Directive … oh, who am I kidding, of course I do.” — James T. Kirk
Vangelis, Legendary Composer for Bladerunner, Chariots of Fire, Dead at 79
The groundbreaking composer died of May 17 of heart failure in a French hospital while being treated for COVID-19.
‘Russian Doll’ Season 2: A Mind-Bending Followup We Never Knew We Wanted
Russian Doll returns, applying its unique style to time travel & creating one crazy train that goes to unanticipated places.