Matt's Sci/Tech Blog

We now have an open-access journal dedicated to "lost" species - those that have not been recorded for a decade or more. The  Jour...

Native Americans were awed by him. Grizzly Adams captured him. P.T. Barnum showed him. Abraham Lincoln visited him. The California state fla...

  New to my collection: a gorgeous JuShi Studio (China) Dunkleosteus terrell i skull, advertised as 1/10 scale at 13cm long. The texture is ...

Pressure 2026 As a historian with an interest in Dwight Eisenhower, I had to give this one a watch. Kudos to the makers of Pressure . First,...

The Jellyfish Problem by Tessa Yang Berkley, 2026 (384pp.) I'm always curious about novels that elevate cryptofiction - the use of an un...

  https://www.amazon.com/900-Days-Seige-Leningrad/dp/B001P4GWZM Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harper & Row Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 1, 1968 Prin...

Out Law Jim Butcher Podium, 2026 194pp. Harry Dresden’s world has stabilized a little since the events of Battle Ground and its after...

 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...