A euphemism for "aging": "evolving."

Example: One of my wise [yoga] teachers told us that after 50, she began to cross off the list poses that she no longer felt made sense for ...

"What sexbots will do is widen the already growing chasm between the sexes, until only the fittest of the fit... can successfully leap across it to woo a human companion in the way that our genetic overlord intended."

Writes Heartiste , noting that "fitness is whatever gets one’s genes to the next generation, whether beneficial to civilization or note...

"Be afraid. Be very afraid."

I ended the previous post with that old sci-fi movie tag line. I think what is going on right now is an effort to create a mindset, and emo...

"There were other science fiction writers, and we loved them, just as there were baseball players besides Willie Mays and rock groups besides the Beatles..."

"... but we loved him best, and when I try to remember why, I have to conclude, proudly, that it wasn’t because his alien worlds were s...

"F*ck Me, Ray Bradbury, the greatest sci-fi writer in history..."

F*ck Me, Ray Bradbury - watch more funny videos Some people really love reading. Via The Pathetic Earthling .

"A rapidly increasing stream of New Age believers – or esoterics, as locals call them – have descended..."

"... in their camper van-loads on the usually picturesque and tranquil Pyrenean village of Bugarach." They believe that when apoca...

Photos of the ruins of Buzludha, Bulgaria's extravagant monument to communism.

"A terrible snow storm surrounded the monument for the first 4 days we spent on the mountain.  During our daily visits to the site, I d...

"This is the size I wanted them to look at 19!"

There should be more stories like this about regretting breast implants. A very young woman is making a decision that binds the much older ...

"Help! Stop! Listen to me! You're in danger! Please!"

This impossibly vivid ending of the original 1956 "Invasion of the Body Snatchers." We'll never forget the amazing performanc...

"If I were sitting in a Tube train and all the people opposite me were reading 'Mein Kampf' with obvious enjoyment and approval..."

"... it probably wouldn’t disturb me much more than if they were reading Heinlein, Tolkien or Richard Adams." Amba quotes science-...