Posts Tagged ‘H.G. Wells’
Ectoplasm–Ghostbusters to spooky twitching nerves
“He slimed me!” Venkman spits out in disgust, writhing in sticky ectoplasm in a memorable scene from the 1984 movie Ghostbusters. Ectoplasm, the mysterious stuff of the supernatural world, also makes nerve axons twitch every time they fire, but almost nobody talks about it.
Read MoreThe Collapse of Science, Not Housing, Ended the American Dream
(First published on Huffington Post Science) The job of a scientist is to predict the future and get there first. We do this by looking for patterns in subtle clues; organizing the fragments thoughtfully to project their likely trajectory. It is this process that moves me to write this essay; in essence an epitaph from…
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