Wasteland Wrap-up #18

Sci-fi cognitive science horror, a meeting of the Royal Society, rockets and bombers, and a bonus dog photo...

This was a surprisingly busy week — writing, teaching, grading, meetings, and so on.

Lyndon poses next to one of my favorite “landmarks” on the Stevens campus — a monument to a bridge between Hoboken and Manhattan that never got built. It feels appropriate to have an homage to a failed engineering project on the campus of an engineering school, and I enjoy its hiding-in-plain-sight aspect, as most people never notice it.

I had planned to get a post out on Friday, but Friday ended up being one of these “spend a lot of time on trains” days and so by the time I got it drafted up, it was late-enough in the day that it didn’t seem quite worth putting up, since it still needs a bit of editing and some images. But I’ll make it up with an additional short post next week as well, and I have a humdinger of a post (on the US nuclear war plans of the late 1950s) scheduled for the week after next. In the meantime, enjoy two photographs of Lyndon taken this week.

Lyndon is a big fan of couch-snuggling, and is also a self-snuggler. I am always impressed by how compact he can be if he wants to be, and how un-compact he can be if he doesn’t want to be.

So stay tuned for more next week. In the meantime, some brief and miscellaneous updates, and I appreciate your patience, those (few?) of you who will notice/miss a week without a normal post…!