Mitch Wyle's Web Log

Französisches preisgekröntes Buch ins Deutsche übersetzt und sehr beliebt. Dieses Buch wurde von meiner Schwägerin empfohlen. Die historisch...

Late one evening this week I received a phone call from one of my children, asking what to pack as he was evacuating his house to escape a f...

A Russian co-worker who shares my passion for science fiction recommended Arkady Strugalsky's books so I picked this one up.  It is fant...

It took a while to get through this one.  Hofstadter is disappointed that fans of his magnum opus GED did not grasp his main point about (...

https://www.hypergiant.com/green/ A 1.8 cubic meter (67 cubic feet) sized "bio reactor" that is open-sourced, including the algae,...

It takes a day to suspend the nano-scale plastic in water, dry them out, electroplate them with nickel, and then dissolve the plastic.  The ...

A mighty new empire is introduced into Allan's universe as the characters overcome overwhelming odds again.  The tropes are getting a li...

I just stumbled across Ben Orlin's "Math With Bad Drawings" blog, where he mentions Catriona Shearer's geometry puzzle twe...

Day Million, The Deadly Mission of PHineas Snodgrass, Fermi and Frost, The Knights of Arthur, The Mayor of Mare Tranq, Spending a Day at the...

More great plot twists in this very-long series.  The bad science and cardboard politics are a little grating but I hope to finish the serie...