Thanksgiving, 2023
Steven Popkes
November 20, 2023
I like Thanksgiving. I’m not a fan of turkey but any holiday that encourages excess of food and beverage is all right to me. Besides,
Author : Steven Popkes
Steven Popkes lives in Massachusetts on two acres where he and his wife raise bananas, persimmons and turtles. His work has been published across spectrum, collected in numerous Best ofs, and nominated for a Nebula award. His day job is in aerospace making sure rockets continue to go where they are pointed. He insists he is not a rocket scientist.
He is a rocket engineer.
State of the Farm: Reckoning 2023
Steven Popkes
November 6, 2023
The harvest is done. The experiment for this year is complete. (Picture: our wee carrot harvest. Including rocks.) Now, we decide what it means. I
Expanding on The Expanse
Steven Popkes
October 16, 2023
Fantasy has its Game of Thrones. Science fiction has its The Expanse. (Picture from here. Leviathan Wakes is the first book of The Expanse.) Game
We Must Look Forward
Steven Popkes
October 2, 2023
Humans are both hyper-cooperative and hyper-competitive. Often, at the same time. (Picture from here.) There’s a continuing discussion of human intelligence that goes something like
Cheese Ends, 20230918
Steven Popkes
September 18, 2023
Welcome to another addition of cheese ends. (Picture from here.) Water on the Moon The moon has hematite. What’s interesting about this is hematite
State of the Farm: September, 2023. The Problem of Scale.
Steven Popkes
September 4, 2023
Be careful what you wish for. (Yes, yes. Another State of the Farm entry. I’m in Wisconsin. Sue me.) Some years ago, I discussed the
Revisiting “AI”
Steven Popkes
August 21, 2023
I discussed a while back my opinion on the stampede to bring AI into the kitchen, living room, workplace, and bedroom that seems to be
State of the Farm: August, 2023
Steven Popkes
August 7, 2023
This will not be a long post as I’m in Pennsylvania for a family reunion. I had planned an interesting post but left without the
Arts_&_Crafts_IV: Ball Boy and Chocolate Man
Steven Popkes
July 31, 2023
Pottery: It’s time to be ambitious. (Ball Boy is an author photograph a piece of meso-American pottery from the Harvard Peabody Museum. Chocolate Man is
State of the Farm: July, 2023
Steven Popkes
July 17, 2023
We’ll start with the bad news. All of our chickens have been killed. This happened a little over a month ago but I haven’t brought
The Problem with Heat
Steven Popkes
July 3, 2023
In these hot days I thought it might be interesting to talk about how animals deal with heat. (Picture from here.) I went into graduate
Toonsi Crater Speculation
Steven Popkes
June 19, 2023
Be patient with me while I talk about this. (Picture from here.) Humans separated from chimpanzees between 4-7 million years ago. This time is a
State of the Farm 2023: May Planting
Steven Popkes
May 15, 2023
I don’t normally put up much on the farm this time of year but I’m fairly excited this year. We’ve had an extraordinarily warm April
