I’ve loved Shimizu’s work since a friend pointed me to her public page on Facebook a year ago. (Come for the ...

Isaac Asimov’s 768-page Understanding Physics clearly explains the principles of motion, sound, heat, light, magnetism, and electricity in a historical context. It gave me a better understanding of ...

On about half the flights I’ve been on the past few years, I see a lonely lost earbud on a seat or the floor when deplaning.

You know those cheeky jokes about the United States invading Canada? No one is laughing in Brian K. Vaughn’s We Stand on Guard, an extremely tense, often brutal, military sci-fi thriller with an ...

I’ve tried many different T-shirt brands, and I’ve finally found one that checks all the boxes — Pair of Thieves. Their shirts are soft, very thin, slightly stretchy, and breathable. I bought a 3-pack ...

The Real Size of Africa. For reasons that would take too long to go into here, maps and globes often distort the size of some regions and make others seem smaller than they really ...

Some authors have it backwards. They believe that AI companies should pay them for training AIs on their books. But I predict in a very short while, authors will be paying AI companies to ensure that ...

We Built Social Media for Agents and They Won’t Stop Posting ...

I go to books when I need to stimulate my imagination. Books never fail. I am a visual thinker, even when I write words, so I especially respond to visual books full of images, graphs, and pictures.

I have a thing for the elements – the diverse atoms that make up the world. I think more of them should be better known. I’ve previously recommended Elements ($10), the best book on this realm, but ...