Matt's Sci/Tech Blog

Looking at the conservation of nature in terms of dollars and return on investment is not intuitive, but it is important. While the value of...

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros Entangled: Red Tower Books, 2024, 544 pp. (paperback)  I don't do novels in this blog very often, and when...

Fifty-eight years ago today, America's first satellite, Explorer 1, roared into space from Cape Canaveral atop a Jupiter C booster (a he...

 Though Not Dead by Dana Stabenow Minotaur, 2011, 464pp. I've been a fan of Dana Stabenow's Kate Shugak novels for nearly twenty yea...

  Professional publications are an underrated part of career building and job searching. The strongest possibilities I'm currently purs...

This is not a new topic for me (or anyone who follows zoology or dabbles in cryptozoology) but it bears revisiting. Are reports of eyewitnes...

 People think of summer reading as beach thrillers and romances. Why not add a little science?  What walked on that beach a hundred million ...

 Fiction: Prowling the Reacher universe  I always liked Jack Reacher. Sure, sometimes he’s impossibly tough and smart. But Lee Child managed...

 Next Man Up? The Weirdest Piloted Rocket Ideas Historical programs and events don’t only provide us further ideas. They provide warnings. E...

There are a lot of technical reasons "why not," but that hasn't stopped the United States from trying,  Fellow baby boom kids ...

ShukerNature (Book 3): Crystal Palace Dinosaurs, Jungle Walruses, and Other Belated Blog Beasts Dr. Karl Shuker Coachwhip Publications, ...

  The Dragon in Winter A Kagen the Damned novel   Griffin, 2024, 292 pp. Jonathan Maberry closes out his ambitious fantasy series, and for...

  OceanXplorers I watched the first episode of Nat Geo’s OceanXplorers. It was excellent and I’ll make sure to catch the rest, but I had a...