Allan Dyen-Shapiro

Science Magazine today came out with a news story about researchers having to shut down their labs because of COVID-19-related restrictions. It focused on si...

When I began writing science fiction just before the beginning of this last decade, I had a mission. It was related to the mission that drove me into environ...

With the Emmys this show has garnered, it’s safe to say I’m not alone is judging it the best science fiction television show in recent memory. I’d previously...

The flashy headline attracted my attention: a new energy source from rivers meeting the oceans. Blue membranes. I liked the name. Apparently, they allow posi...

I admit it—I like ridiculous titles. The Internet has been atwitter (pun intended) with a hullaballoo that seems to me will be a tempest in a teapot to all b...

By 2050, half of the world’s arable land will be salt-stressed due to rising sea levels. Although transgenic tomatoes that are more salt-tolerant have been a...

Yesterday’s Climate Change Town Hall uncovered rifts between the Democratic Presidential candidates. On the one extreme, Cory Booker pushed new nuclear power...

I was going to give up on this series after the first couple episodes of its last season. I had loved the first two seasons. The morally ambiguous superhero,...

For a long time, I felt that the role for men in the country’s debate over abortion was to shut up and not get involved. It was an issue for women and possib...

As this is a minefield, I will state my expertise from the get-go: at one point in my life, I published scientific papers quantifying the level of hormones. ...

Up to recently, I had thought the most important role for educators, broadly defined, in this country was debunking climate change denial. Only in the US had...

The US has become a pariah nation in terms of response to global climate change, but it is not because the average person is anti-environment. Recent surveys...

Here’s a link to an excellent summary in the Washington Post of a very disturbing PNAS article. I’ve just a few clarifications to add. Very brief summary fir...

I have been pretty consistent on calling bullshit on a particular left-wing rallying cry of Roundup as an environmental issue. The demonization of this herbi...

My blog posts usually lead to a considerable amount of Facebook/Twitter-based discussion, but things have been pretty quiet in response to the first two post...

In Dan Baum’s book, Gun Guys, he distinguishes the various zones experienced when armed with a loaded weapon. The most interesting to me was the yellow zone,...

About a year ago, I was engaged in a discussion of writing “The Other”—a topic of great importance to near-future science fiction—when I mentioned the societ...

The scenes from South Texas have been heartbreaking, children separated from their parents, casualties of a broader struggle over what is America and who is ...

For this blog post, I have none of the conventional qualifications. I’m discussing a character from the Marvel Universe, and, hey, I never read any of the co...

“I put a taqueria on the moon (The information action ratio) It got rave reviews Four stars out of five” These lyrics, from the new science fiction concep...