[Spoilers] Game of Thrones recaps often read like fantastical obituaries. The season finale on Father’s Day marked the start of the Lannister downfall with Tyrion’s murder of his father Tywin. “I am your son.” Tyrion declared, before skewering Tywin on…
The Bureau of Land Management and the National Forest Service own 600 million acres of land in the West—more than the Eastern seaboard, Texas, Kansas, and France combined. Ninety-one percent of these federal lands are located west of the Colorado/Nebraska…
This was season four’s first episode without any nudity. But it easily made up for it with the sheer variety of violence and sexual frustration. [Spoilers] Episode nine, “The Watchers on the Wall,” opens on a discussion between Jon Snow…
“If it bleeds it leads.” The entertainment industry’s love affair with violence is nothing new, though HBO has taken the brutal baton and run away with it. Game of Thrones is macabre, perverse, and yet dangerously entertaining. Aristotle noted that…
Why would a successful country that’s enjoyed a thousand years of independence give up its right of self-government to the unelected non-entities that we see sitting before us this morning? So asked Nigel Farage, leader of the UK Independence Party…
NASA released its first “Global Selfie,” or as Noelle Swan, staff writer for the Christian Science Monitor, called it, “the shot taken round the world.” The 3.2 gigapixel interactive image is made up of tens of 36,422 individual selfies taken…
The recent findings of NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler telescope have revealed that there may be 400 billion stars in our single galaxy, and at least 70 percent of them have planets. One in every five stars may have planets that have…
[Here, there be spoilers] Arya’s direct family is dead or disappeared. She is paired—half by necessity, half by fate—to an unlikely teacher with a knack for killing who is driven by short-term goals and long-term aimlessness. Wait! This seems familiar….
Like a child holding a prized toy above his younger brother’s head, Russia is taunting the United States via space policy. In this case, the toy is the International Space Station and it’s being held 250 kilometers above Uncle Sam’s…
In the feudal system prevalent in Game of Thrones, there are the commoners and noble houses. Ruling lords are surrounded by counselors and can create decrees. The entire realm is subordinate to the Iron Throne. The throne is the symbol…
