Allan Dyen-Shapiro

January 1, 2018, Miami, Florida. CDC officials today are reporting a 1,000-fold increase in deaths caused by encephalitis this year...

Economics is one area in which Americans don’t need Russians to infiltrate and sow dissent and confusion. We have plenty of dissent and...

Last night, on the first televised (rather than webcast) after-show for Mister Robot, the show’s creator, Sam Esmail, obliquely told...

Early in my attempts to catch up on a lifetime of not reading science fiction, in preparation for writing science fiction, I came across...

Post-capitalist dystopia has been science fiction’s stock and trade since the 1960s. Whether in the permanently impoverished and violent...

What would you say about a science fiction plot in which the US was providing money and training to a group of former Marxist-Leninists...

Ever been struck with an idea that won’t leave your head and the gift of time to muse over it? Well, with Hurricane Harvey keeping me...

Some of us root for the bad guys in the movies. They get to be much more ingenious than the good guys, most of whom are either corrupt or...

I recently came across a TED talk from historian Deborah Lipstadt, in which she relayed her insights from a study of Holocaust deniers....

As I was too low-tech with this website to have credits scrolling that looked like Spielberg’s, you’re going to have to use your...

For the last nine years, my day job has been teaching high school science. People outside of education ask how I handle creationist...

This weekend, my wife and I went to see the premiere of a new play being rolled out in four cities, Doublewide. Admittedly, the first act...

A couple weeks ago, I attended the annual Southwest Florida Reading Festival. My wife insists on going every year. As a teacher of...

I must admit to a bias in writing this post. Back in 2004, when I was being recruited to come to Florida Gulf Coast University as an...

Most of the planet looks at the US and wonders how it is that Americans don't "get it" when it comes to climate change. The science is...

Imagine you are appointed to a committee of wizards, meeting in some dingy (and likely dragon-infested) back room in Hogwarts, tasked...

I like the New York Times. I like getting their free headlines in my inbox, and I like linking to my ten free articles per month. And my...

My wife is outstanding at winning radio contests. And all sorts of other contests. As such, much of our entertainment is free. With free...

And the award for pretension in blog post titles goes to ... yeah, bear with me on this one. I recently binge watched the first two...

Yeah, I certainly could have started with a cheesy quotation from Wizard of Oz, but the Rogers and Hammerstein lyrics were running...