A new series of genetic tests has revealed that poor young King Tut suffered from a raft of genetic disorders, including a cleft palate, club foot, and Kohler’s disease, which was slowly destroying the bones of his left foot. He probably had to walk with canes. He was the poster-boy for why your ambitions shouldn’t […]

Here I thought I was off to Seattle, but I couldn’t quite pass up informing you of an event on the other coast: the Pinchbottom Burlesque event, “Naked Girls Reading Science Fiction.”The event takes place at “the plush and decadent upstairs lounge at Madame X in Greenwich Village,” and costs $25. Among the readers is […]

Courtesy of Jonathan Ravid, I’m pleased to present the extremely elegant cover to the Israeli edition of Implied Spaces.

Here’s a potentially useful article titled “How to Fall 35,000 Feet—And Survive.”Because you never known when this kind of information will come in handy.Granted, the odds of surviving a 6-mile plummet are extra­ordinarily slim, but at this point you’ve got nothing to lose by understanding your situation. There are two ways to fall out of […]