IAC 2016, Part 1: The Race to Mars
This year’s International Astronautical Congress is over, and we can now reflect on what it brought forth. It had been especially eventful this time and l...
Category: Nonfiction
FameLab & LPS16
Last Sunday, the Czech FameLab finale was held in the Ypsilon theatre in Prague. Eleven finalists; eleven great and fun science talks. I imagine it was difficul...
AFO 2016
This year’s Academia Film Olomouc has ended on Sunday and has been just as awesome as the last one, perhaps even more. I’ve interviewed several gues...
Planetary Science Hot News, Part 2
This year’s European Planetary Science Congress is over. It’s been exciting, full of news and interesting people and really well-organized. What wer...
Pluto: a world more fascinating than we’d hoped for
Pluto and its largest moon Charon proved to be extremely interesting objects during the recent New Horizons flyby. While the spacecraft is on its way further in...
Turning the microscope back on us from a distance
It’s been a while since I posted an interview here, however, it would be a loss if interviews with interesting people only appeared in an issue of a print...
News from Academia Film Olomouc & more
Well, AFO turned out great despite some small organizational problems. The films and talks were all interesting. I liked Pohyby (Movements) and Kmeny: Hackeři (...
“I’d love to see first contact with an alien civilization!”
It’s been a while since I posted snippets from interviews I had done for XB-1 here but I can finally share another short excerpt – with the wonderfu...
Darkest humor in the new issue of XB-1
The February issue of XB-1 is coming soon a it features the second part of Equoid (Charles Stross), Explaining Cthulhu to Grandma (Alex Shvartsman) and What Doc...
Review of Upgraded at Fantasy Scroll
I’ve reviewed Neil Clarke’s cyborg anthology UPGRADED for Fantasy Scroll Magazine; the review can be found here in the new issue of the magazine. Cz...
