Matt's Sci/Tech Blog

 Bigfoot BBQ and Bigfoot Festival Estes Park, CO April 24 and 25, 2026 I always love this get-together. I don’t expect to hear compelling ne...

 Red Empire Jonathan Maberry St. Martin's Griffin, 2026, 528pp. As a science and technology guy, a historian, and a lover of good advent...

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...