Stephen King’s novel The Stand is over 500,000 words in length. It’s copyrighted by Stephen King in its entirety. You can probably get away with reprinting a few paragraphs under fair use and with proper attribution. Microsoft Windows 10 has over 50 million lines of code. It’s copyrighted by Microsoft Corporation in its entirety. You […]
We Know Nothing
Science is the explanation of how the universe works. Everything can be explained with science. People who believe otherwise are confusing “science” with “known science.” Not all of science is known. It is impossible to know all of science, because the universe is infinite, and thus the explanation for the universe is also infinite. Whenever […]
Corey Kluber
STATUS: Active Hero Corey Kluber is a three-time All-Star and a 2-time Cy Young Award winner. He currently pitches for the Tampa Bay Rays. Kluber’s most dominant pitch is his two-seam sinker, which he learned while playing in the minor leagues in 2011. It was soon after he mastered that pitch that he started overpowering […]
Taiwan’s Famous Stinky Tofu
One of my earliest memories is of looking down at my feet as my sandals squished into the mud after a summer thunderstorm. One of my hands held a tiny plastic bottle of Yakult, while the other clutched my mother’s hand. She led me up the muddy street through the market where my grandmother was […]
Jonathan Papelbon
STATUS: Retired Hero Papelbon ended his career with 368 saves. That’s 9th on the all-time list and more saves than Hall of Famer Rollie Fingers (who had 341). His combative personality, while perhaps fueling his success, did not make him many friends in baseball. Papelbon’s physical attack on teammate Bryce Harper near the end of […]
Author’s Notes: The World of Plague of Dead
What if the Black Death was not just a bubonic plague? What if it was a zombie plague? What if whenever someone died of the Black Death, they arose again as a zombie within a few minutes of death?