Allan Dyen-Shapiro

"Kung flu," "the Chinese virus," "enormous evidence" that the coronavirus outbreak originated in a Chinese biotech lab—these phrases used...

Like many of you who have been sheltering-in-place, with my now-virtual day job having settled down a bit, I've been catching up on TV th...

The investigation, reported in this Washington Post article, has revealed what went wrong with testing for the coronavirus in the US. The...

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

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 d...

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 me...

The flashy headline attracted my attention: a new energy source from rivers meeting the oceans. Blue membranes. I liked the name. Apparen...

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 ...

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-...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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

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-environ...

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. Ve...

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

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

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

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 ...