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The Apple TV+ Isaac Asimov adaptation starring Jared Harris and Lee Pace is better than ever in its second season.

NASA planetary scientist and "Foundation" space advisor Kevin Hand tells Space.com how the series stays rooted in actual science and astrophysics.

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This is an elaboration of my submission for the letter detection prize as part of the Vesuvius Challenge in June. It gets technical and esoteric but the first few paragraphs are of general interest. In AD 79, Mt Vesuvius, a volcano in Italy, erupted burying several nearby Roman towns, including Pompeii and Herculaneum. Forgotten until…

The book version is better than its screen adaptation, but that's not always the case. Here are TV shows better than the source material.

Foundation is funny, exciting, lyrical, dazzling to the eye, epic in scope, and horny at heart.

Foundation is partly a science fiction thriller, partly a coming-of-age story. Maybe it has the right feel for the moment, given worries about the decay of American power. The first season, for example, re-created 9/11 and suggested race riots and religious revolts in the context of an imperial capital. Foundation raises the problems of decline and progress in a way most pop culture doesn't even contemplate. In going back for its sources farther than most of our nostalgia fashions, it also ...

This character makes Foundation even better, and in episode 4, she reveals something that I found very relatable.

Among the big, galaxy-changing events, Foundation has enough time to do a little Star Trek episode. A recap of ‘Where the Stars Are Scattered Thinly,’ episode four of season two of Apple TV+’s ‘Foundation.’ Based on Isaac Asimov’s book series.

“For a god to be effective, you have to be intermittently wrathful.”