Polymath at Large

 kw: story reviews, science fiction, fantasy, anthologies, collections Three stories of the last seven in The Best American Science Fiction ...

 kw: story reviews, science fiction, fantasy, anthologies, collections I read at least parts of eight more stories in The Best American Scie...

 kw: book reviews, story reviews, science fiction, fantasy, anthologies, collections The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025 com...

 kw: book reviews, nonfiction, sports, sociology, gender issues, women's issues, polemics Korfball is a coed version of basketball that ...

 kw: blogs, blogging, spider scanning I finished the prior post and looked at the stats. Today and yesterday, the number of views exceeds 33...

 kw: book reviews, science fiction, space fiction, generation starships, solar system engineering, totalitarianism, culture shock It takes a...

 kw: blogs, blogging, spider scanning, ai training I thought yesterday's spider outbreak was the peak. The peak is being sustained, or p...

 kw: book reviews, nonfiction, medicine, prosthetics, transplanting To start on a personal note: In these book reviews I typically relate th...

 kw: blogs, blogging, spider scanning, ai training In the past two hours this blog has received 4,016 views. I am pretty sure that no more t...

 kw: essays, artificial intelligence, simulated intelligence, ai, si, imposters One of my favorite authors, Isaac Asimov, was well known as ...

 kw: book reviews, nonfiction, artificial intelligence, simulated intelligence, sociology, hype, theology In the novel Caves of Steel , Isaa...

 kw: book reviews, science fiction, space fiction, space stations, hybrids I prompted for this image based on descriptions in Hybrids: DAX9 ...

 kw: book reviews, fantasy, archetypes, genies At the end of the animated film Aladdin , Aladdin uses his third wish to set free the genie. ...

 kw: book reviews, nonfiction, science, geology, paleontology, plants, evolution Cyanobacteria, which were called "blue-green algae...

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 kw: book reviews, nonfiction, science, oceanography, biology, invertebrates, medicine Behold a gallery of sponge animals. They headline The...