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  • Michio Kaku on the Science Fiction in Video Games

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    If you’ve never seen GTTV’s series The Science of Games, it’s worth watching to have your mind blown a little bit. In it, host Daniel Kayser interviews theoretical physicist Dr. Michio Kaku about just how feasible the futuristic technology portrayed in video games really is. It’s definitely pop science — all very fun, fluffy and hypothetical — and…

  • Alex Cherry’s Art for Space Nerds and Pop Culture Geeks

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    Just wanted to take a quick time-out to recommend the art of Alex Cherry, which you can view at his Of Sound and Vision website here. I’ve been a fan of his work for a long time now, but he just keeps surprising. A lot of his art is a trippy take on pop culture, with…

  • The Inner Space Mystery of “Moon”

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    Moon (2009) is as much a thoughtful mystery as it is a whirlwind psychological profile of a single man, alone on the moon. It has become one of my favorite science fiction films ever. In Moon, Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) is finishing up his three-year contract with Lunar Industries, which has him harvesting fuel on the far…