What your professors do in their spare time

I love it when a plan comes together. My faithful readers might be aware that I sometimes dabble in the world of independent film. Well, one of my projects lately has been helping produce a short film festival here in  [more...]

Looks like breaking the laws of thermodynamics is not as easy as some people think. The initial claim by an Irish company called Steorn was laughable -- they announced that they had created a machine that puts out more  [more...]

If you liked the Christopher Guest movie “A Mighty Wind,” you’re in luck. All the cast members, performing as their folk-musician characters from the film, will play at the 9:30 club [in Washington  [more...]