14 reasons sci-fi fans should celebrate David Bowie’s birthday
David Bowie was more than a singer of classic art rock songs. He’s a genre mainstay… and also may believe he’s an alien.
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NYCC: Teachers explain how comic books help kids learn at the NY Public Library
Erica Buddington, founder of The Langston League, which designs socially responsible and relevant curricula for students of color, recently worked with a sixth-grade student who didn’t want to study ancient civilizations. So she tried to get on the mid…
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Troy Foreman: Programmer by day. Filmmaker by night. Millennium fan always.
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Syfy Wire 2018-09-28 14:00:00
Troy Foreman: Programmer by day. Filmmaker by night. Millennium fan always.
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Check out these incredible 3D-printed cosplay props from the Maker Faire in NYC
The annual Maker Faire — a moveable feast of arts, crafts, and technology, held worldwide since 2008 — had its first cosplay prop competition in New York City last weekend. The event, held at the New York Hall of Science, was everything you could expec…
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Inside the Deadpool selfie museum in NYC
Participants are loaned a selfie stick and encouraged to believe in theirselfies.
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Jobs We Want: Concept artist Gus Mendonca helps create the look of Star Wars, Halo, and others
Ever wondered what a concept artist does for film/TV/games/comic books? Now you’ll know.
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Jobs We Want: Concept artist Gus Mendonca helps create the look of Star Wars, Halo, and others
Ever wondered what a concept artist does for film/TV/games/comic books? Now you’ll know.
Read MoreIn artist Dave Pollot’s hands, everything old is new again. Geeky too
An artist repurposes old paintings to geeky effect.
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This Orphan Black fan bracelet maker has gone big time
It’s not every fan whose work appears as a plot point on their favorite show.
But New York City-based Miriam Salzman, whose love of Orphan Black inspired her to design, make, and sells friendship bracelets on her Etsy site Summer of String, is not eve…
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Harlan Ellison remembered: Twitter pays tribute to the Star Trek/Outer Limits writer
Harlan Ellison, the enfant terrible of the 1960s speculative fiction publishing world who was known for his irascible nature as much as his brilliant prose, has died at age 84.
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When to hire an ethics officer
Your company has a grand plan for digital disruption (and world domination). When and how should you consider the philosophical consequences?
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Stuff We Love: The Guild’s ‘I’m the One That’s Cool’ is the world’s greatest geek anthem
I’m not a touchy-feely person. On the Myers-Briggs personality scale, I “think” rather than “feel.” (ENTP, babies.) But watching the video for The Guild’s “I’m the One That’s Cool” put a lump in my throat and made me sniffle with wha…
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Stuff We Love: The lyrics in Batman: The Brave and the Bold’s ‘Birds of Prey’ are naughty fun
When you were a child, you spoke as a child, you understood as a child, and you probably watched Batman: The Brave and the Bold as a child. But when you became an adult, maybe you thought, “Hey, did those lyrics from the song ‘Birds of Prey’ really say…
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Stuff We Love: ‘Roll a D6’ music video will make you want to play Dungeons & Dragons immediately
YouTube recommends all sorts of clips for me, and rarely do I click on them; I still live in regret after clicking on a link that led me to “Two Girls, One Cup.” (Thanks, dude who created that link. Thank you to hell.) But recently I saw the title for …
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Stuff We Love: The original Star Wars trailer is a brilliantly flawed diamond in the rough
If you’re reading this, it goes without saying you’ve seen the 1977 classic Star Wars. But I’ll bet serious galactic credits that only a fraction of you have seen the original trailer; after all, many of you weren’t yet born when it hit theaters in 197…
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Stuff We Love: Etsy is filled with an infinity of fabulous Infinity Gauntlets
If you’re a fan of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, you’ll know that each film is a piece of a larger puzzle, and the puzzle to be solved is the Infinity Gauntlet. Thanos, whose solution to overpopulation is more of a Final Solution, has spent the entire…
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Stuff We Love: Your Star Wars cosplay is now complete, thanks to Po-Zu shoes
Cosplayers without hand-eye coordination can always find friends, family, and costumers to help us create a head-to-toe ensemble. But unless you happen to know a shoemaker — or you don’t mind putting in tedious hours embellishing your boots — …
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Stuff We Love: Spoonflower is a cosplayer/geek clothier’s new best friend
Cool geeky clothes are easier to find than ever before — if your body size is average or even extra large. But since bodies come in all heights and widths, the only way to get what we really want is to either make it ourselves, to cajole a clothes-…
Read MoreStuff We Love: Iain M. Banks’ novel Use of Weapons has not one but two sanity-curdling plot twists (spoiler-free)
Iain M. Banks’ 1990 novel Use of Weapons, one of the books in his Culture series, is unlike any space opera you’ve ever read. First, its structure is both simple and complex, and second, it has a plot twist that bends your mind so hard it act…
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