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Andre Norton was a master of the adventure plot, and she loved to mash up genres—science fantasy was one of her favorite things, as the Witch World cycle demonstrates. Every so often however, she either did not connect with her material, or the book she wanted to write simply did not fit into her wheelhouse. Merlin’s Mirror is one of these rather rare misfires. The idea is not terrible. It’s the Witch World concept: a vanishing Old Race of impossible antiquity, an alien world of war and superstition, ongoing attempts to bring peace and higher civilization to the reluctant natives. The ...

Virginia Standards of Learning: PH.3  The student will investigate and understand, through mathematical and experimental processes, that there are relationships among force, mass, and acceleration. Key laws include Newton’s laws of motion. 4.1  The student will demonstrate an understanding of scientific and engineering practices by: a) asking questions and defining problems; b) planning and carrying out investigations; c) interpreting, analyzing, and evaluating data. 5.1  The student will demonstrate an understanding of scientific and engineering practices by: a) asking questions and d...

President Biden’s recent virtual Quad summit with the prime ministers of India, Australia, and Japan on the surface focused on regional security, emerging technologies, and climate change. But beyond that, the Quad summit marked the official return and strong embrace of this coordinating mechanism among maritime democracies to ensure stability in the Indo-Pacific region.

Perhaps nothing is more elusive in American politics than the “permanent majority.” After almost every election, the winning party thinks it has found the answer — a coalition of voters that will stay together and guarantee electoral success for as far as the eye can see. Of course, the eye can’t see very far, because voters are always realigning, sometimes faster than others, so coalitions are always changing. White college-educated suburbanites once were reliably Republican; now they’ve moved into the Democratic column. Blue-collar voters once were reliably Democrat...

March 6th, 2021 Thom Baur / Reuters Putting people safely into orbit is no small feat, especially without the seemingly limitless R&D budgets afforded to national space programs. However that has done little to dissuade a new generation of the private spaceflight companies from looking to the heavens above and thinking, "yeah, I can get up there, no sweat." In , senior Ars Technica space editor, Eric Berger chronicles the company's tumultuous 20-year effort to field reliable and reusable rocket technologies, culminating in a heady decade-long run at the forefront of private spaceflight. Har...