• Giants and Girls: Dedicated to all those prehistoric giants, pinhead mutants, bug-eyed aliens, and other monsters always chasing (and sometimes catching) beautiful girls. How do you ask “where the white women at?” in martian?

• Rolling Stone piece asks: Is a frog’s ass water-tight? Or might as well.

•  Is it possible to prove that all humans see the same colors? Or is color subjective?

• Our galaxy, bent like a vinyl record in the sun, is a much wilder looking tentacled beast than suspected.

• Small gallery of vintage horror and spacecraft Top Trump cards.

• 9 Theories of Extraterrestrial Contact an inventory of the “leading paradigms.”

• Beyond the grandfather paradox: Heinlein’s paradox from All You zombies.

• An airforce captain’s concept for parasitic space weapons and here’s another airforce officer’s argument for “orbital strike constellations.”

• Assistive Media offers audio versions of magazine content from Wired, The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthy, Sci-Am, and many more.