No, not “Son Of Fusion,” but “sonofusion”, as in, related to sound. An exciting new development in the pursuit of low-cost fusion.

You probably don’t need me to link to this all-important finding today, since it’s all over the Web, but here’s a link anyway. You’re welcome.

Dennis Prager goes over the top, comparing those supporting same-sex marriages with Islamofascist terrorists, making a fool of himself with this sentence in the very first paragraph: The war over same-sex marriage and the war against Islamic totalitarianism are actually two fronts in the same war — a war for the preservation of the unique …

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SCIENCE Edward Willett Today’s top automobile tech During the Academy Awards telecast on Sunday, I noticed for the first time an ad from a major car company promoting its development of hydrogen-powered cars. Those are probably still 10 years away, but other technological advances for automobiles are here now. In an article in Spectrum, published …

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Rogers Cadenhead takes AP to task for its take on the Pew study on Internet usage. 2.7 million bloggers sounds like a lot to me, but what do I know?

Looks like information may survive inside a black hole after all–and Stephen Hawking loses a bet.

You know, when you start looking, the news is just full of stories with headlines that look like bad SF stories from the pulp era. LIke this one about the hordes of gigantic crabs on their way to invade Europe.

Find out about books that have been banned through the years by various authorities for various reasons–then read them online! A number of SF titles included, by the way.

Get your weekly postcard of Saturn here, courtesy of the Cassini spacecraft!

See it here!

Now, this is funny!

I’d like to believe in the U.N. I really would. But stories like this one make it difficult. A billion dollars here, a billion dollars there–pretty soon they add up to real money.