After blogging pretty consistently daily for years, I’ve finally slowed this blog down to every other day due to the realities of work and family. Maybe I’ll get back to daily in a couple years. In the meantime, I’m going to pare my “month in review” posts to highlight three items, because it wouldn’t really make sense to do a Top 9 out of 15.

Most frightening and/or depressing story:

• Writing in 1984, Isaac Asimov thought we would be approaching world peace, living lives of leisure, children would love school, and we would be mining the moon and manufacturing things in orbital factories by now.

Most hopeful story:

• The dream of fusion power is not dead. There is even some hope of new advancements in fission power.

Most interesting story, that was not particularly frightening or hopeful, or perhaps was a mixture of both:

• Some in the U.S. Senate and military take UFOs seriously.