Time Travel 
“Lost”: Never About Time Travel
“As I lay in that dark hour, I was aghast to realize that something within me, long sickening, had quietly died, and I felt as a husband might, who, in the fourth year of his ma... ...read more
Hot Tubs and Lost Worlds, Part II
A Time Machine to the Hot Tub In the 1970s, the San Francisco Bay Area was ground zero for hot tub culture and the new tribe of people who would rally to it. It was the era when... ...read more
Searching for Lost Time in a Hot Tub Time Machine
Part I: Dude, Where’s My Hot Tub? Hot Tub Time Machine. Two common nouns preceded by two modifiers: simplicity itself. But such a perfectly pitched phrase! A heavy, initia... ...read more
Time-Traveling Bird Shuts Europe’s Super Collider, Saves Universe
Large Hadron Collider, Geneva Since that first, primordial act of disobedience, Man’s insatiable lust for knowledge has been a sickle that has reaped a harvest bountiful in tear... ...read more
“The Prisoner”: What Happens When James Bond Goes John Galt
That opening — with its portentous thunderclap; the distant speck on the horizon that resolves with impossible swiftness into a Lotus 7 roadster, roaring down the motorway... ...read moreNine Out of Ten Iranian Mullahs Say “Yes” to “Lost” Mania
The Guardian has the story of how America’s favorite time-bending, globe-trotting television series, Lost, has been cleared for commercial release in the Islamic Republic of Ir... ...read moreIs Time Travel Possible? (Video)
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X02WMNoHSm8 Video courtesy of Dr. Michio Kaku, Science Channel personality, author of Physics of the Impossible, and all around pragmatist. ...read more
Close Encounters of the High Sierra Retired Kind
PART I: GOING NATIVE On a hot summer day in late August 1911, a desperate and bedraggled man left his hideout in the mountains of Northern California and passed through a time w... ...read more“Hot Tub Time Machine.” No, Really.
The Time Traveler’s Wife may have sadly just arrived, but that doesn’t mean we have to bid farewell to time travel cinema just yet. Hot Tub Time Machine, a comedy staring John C... ...read more
“Mad Men” Coming, Hold On to Your Hats
Like the March crocuses that burst suddenly from the frozen earth, so the e-garden that is Facebook is pullulating with a colorful spring crop of its own. The crocuses, in this ... ...read moreFollow Us
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