Allan Dyen-Shapiro

This is a bit of a departure for me—a blog post solely concerning one episode of the Amazon Prime TV series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel—but...

Here’s the link to the article: https://www.wired.com/story/how-the-ai-nobel-prizes-could-change-the-focus-of-research/ It’s...

This week, Politico published an op-ed by Jeff Greenfield comparing Vietnam-era actions at Columbia University (and elsewhere) with the...

I adored Cixin Liu’s trilogy, tearing through the books back when they came out. The translations deserved all their awards. Although I...

The event: September 11, 2001, al-Qaeda terrorists fly two planes into the World Trade Center, killing nearly 3000 people. The...

I recently broke down and paid for Hulu as part of the Disney Plus package that the BBC sellout to The Mouse necessitated if I was going...

I skipped the rallies—the stand-with-Israel as well as the stop-the-bloodshed ones. I neglected to gift the planet with self-righteous...

My Ph.D. is in biochemistry, not in literature. Although science fiction writers without any advanced degree abound, and some are...

I sit in Minneapolis as I write this, planning to leave pre-dawn on Thursday morning and drive to Winnipeg for NASFIC. Here's what I'll...

I figured I’d do this as a blog post as then I can link to it from all of my social media. This is in a little over a week—I’m very much...

Fair warning—this post will go myriad places before making its point, but the journey is necessary. I promise it will return to science...

From time to time, I see an environmental science story where sufficient details are missing to make it unintelligible or, more often,...

I get a lot of science-related stuff in my email inbox. Only occasionally is it so cool that I’m willing to wade through a technical...

Like many of you, I watched every episode of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, as well as El Camino and all of the web-and-DVD extras...

I watched the Jordanian candidate for the Best Foreign Film Oscar, Farha, a few nights ago on Netflix. It personalizes the Nakba, the...

Biden has demanded all scientific journals publishing papers with US government support provide the papers and all supplementary data for...

I feel incredibly fortunate right now. With all the grumbling I've heard on social media of people being slighted for spots on...

For fifteen years, from my submitting applications to fund my postdoc through my first faculty position, through political change leading...

The public phase of the Congressional hearings on the January 6th insurrection began yesterday. I saw a few clips and had to look away,...

I'm midway through reading a book whose publication date I noted on social media the day it was announced. I never do that. Even with...