PinnedMatt WilliamsDownfall: The End of Putin’s RussiaAfter more than twenty years of autocratic rule, murder, human rights abuses, and unbridled aggression against his neighbors, Putin’s…Jul 10, 202311Jul 10, 202311
PinnedMatt WilliamsPersonal Milestone: I Finally Get Relativity!In life, it is good to set personal goals. Not just the big and life-changing kind, mind you, I’m talking about the little things that help…Jan 19, 20225Jan 19, 20225
PinnedMatt WilliamsA Humble Attempt at Predicting Future HistoryA fictitious timeline of the future, from tomorrow to 1 billion years from now.Mar 7, 2023Mar 7, 2023
PinnedMatt WilliamsA New Scale for Classifying Intelligence?In the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), there are many limiting factors. These go beyond the usual technical limitations…Feb 22, 20221Feb 22, 20221
PinnedMatt WilliamsThe Decline and Fall of the American EmpireThis is an opinion piece, but an informed one (if I say so myself). I invite debate and contradiction, but I ask that people not write in…Sep 22, 2022Sep 22, 2022
Matt WilliamsExcept that all of these polls indicated that both Sanders and Clinton had a massive lead on Trump…Anyone capable of reading and doing basic math can see that this was the decisive factor in the election. It reduced Clinton’s 7 point lead…Jun 162Jun 162
Matt WilliamsEpisode 74 of Stories from Space is now Live — Voices of the Future: Alastair Reynolds.In previous installments of this series, I paid tribute to Arthur C. Clarke and Frank Herbert for the foresight they demonstrated in their…May 25May 25
Matt WilliamsEpisode 73 of SfS — The Great Migration: Living on Uranus’ Moons — is now Live!Morning all! The Great Migration continues with this week’s latest episode and asks the question: “How may humans someday settle the…May 7May 7
Matt WilliamsEpisode 72 of SfS — The Gift of Gravitational Lensing (with Dr. Slava Turyshev) — is now Live!This week, my guest was Russian-American physicist Dr. Slava Turyshev, a Senior Research Scientist, Technologist, and Project Manager at…Apr 27Apr 27
Matt WilliamsEpisode 71 of SfS — Voices of the Future: Frank Herbert — is now Live!This week’s episode picked up a series that I began long ago but then left untouched! Voices of the Future was intended to pay tribute to…Apr 18Apr 18