Can’t get out to the latest SF blockbuster? Here’s a little Bureau42 Festival of recent short genre films available on Youtube:
“Flying Man” takes a dark look at the superhero:
“R’ha,” “The Final Moments of Karl Brant” (with Paul Reubens), “Caldera,” “Runaway,” and “The Strangers,” below:
A team from the University of Toronto successfully launched a human-powered ‘copter, winning a prize that has remained unclaimed for three decades:
Meanwhile, another team of university students will be getting a lift from NASA later this month to see how fire burns in microgravity.
Ever wonder how to wash your hair in space? Astronaut Karen Nyberg shows you how.
The U.S. Economic Development Administration spent a fortune destroying computers– including printers and mice– attempting to rid their system of suspected, commonplace, easily-purged viruses and malware. Tax dollars at work, in an agency designed to deal with economic issues.
If you haven’t stumbled on it yet, a blogger named Joe Negroni has folded all the Pixar films into one universe-building timeline.
Cameron teams up with Gardiner, Alec’s house becomes a crime scene, and we learn someone’s truth about why future Alec sent Liber8 to the present.
Audio podcasts are coming from Bureau 42. The master feed (iTunes, RSS) is now available, and will include all audio podcasts, including the two we’ve already done. The first regular podcast goes up one week from today, in the inaugural chapter of our monthly Silver Screen Superman, covering the 12 feature film incarnations of the character and most of the franchise. (Steel is omitted.) That will also have its own feed, as will our podcasts about the films in our Greatest Science Fiction Film Tournament, this fall’s X-Files Retrospective podcast, and more. There is also a feed for Math From Scratch (iTunes, RSS) and we will be introducing feeds for Summer School, Teaching Tidbits and a master education feed as well. Note that the education feeds are in PDF format, which I find works in iTunes but not in the iOS Podcasts app. The audio podcasts work as expected under iOS.
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We polled readers last week, and received responses only from the site authors. The final format decisions can be heard in this inaugural podcast, and the listener poll about the second and further TV podcasts can be found here.
Science fiction has been around for centuries, and science fiction has appeared on film since 1902. Many website purport to offer lists of the greatest science fiction films of all time. We’re going to produce the definitive list, with your help. Read on for details.
We have not one, not two, but three different podcast projects starting in 2013 and later. Project 3 is the big one that has been teased for months. If you enjoy them, there will be more. Details for all three follow after the break. I’ll be looking for guest hosts for all of them to add a conversation dynamic. If you are interested in guest hosting on one or more, you can email me and let me know.
Coming September 2013
Today is, apparently, the day for protesting the SOPA and PIPA legislation that are wending their way through the US legislation like a pig through the digestive system of a python. (Yes, we know SOPA has been taken off the table for now, but that doesn’t mean it can’t come back, and it would be wishful thinking to belive we’d seen the last of it.)
Since the Bureau is primarily in the business of dissemination of information we’re all very much against such legislation and, while we haven’t actually blacked out our own site (it’s plenty black already, amiright?) we’d like to point out some of the better SOPA/PIPA protests we’ve come across today.
Please add your own examples in the comments. We’ll edit the original article to include any particularly good ones (giving credit where credit is due, of course).*
Wikipedia
Something Positive
Questionable Content
Reddit
Extra Credits
Google Home Page
Wired