WWWednesday: June 4, 2025

Salem’s Lot is beloved by many Stephen King fans, yet adaptations to film and screen remain largely unsuccessful. Reactor analyzes these offerings in depth.
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This YouTube site is streaming science; 100 hours of 5-minute segments by noted scientists, explaining the importance of their field.

Warning, spoilers: The Doctor Who finale swings for fences, jumps a couple of sharks, and generally invokes every other metaphor-for-outrageous.

Oh, wow! Captain Nemo is back, with the Nautilus! This might even be good.

The Seattle WorldCon Committee used ChatGPT in its vetting process of panel participants, and this created a controversy. (“What?” I hear you saying, “A controversy…at WorldCon?”) In protest, writer Mia Tsai is trying to create an alternate one-day convention (counter-con, if you will) during WorldCon, called Con-Current. Here is some information (also the fundraising page.). It’s right across the street from the WorldCon hotel, which means… you could go to both if you wanted.

Nerds of a Feather reviews Elizabeth Bear’s latest space opera adventure, The Folded Sky.

Atlas Obscura’s podcast showcases one of my favorite historical female anti-heroes, Aimee Semple McPherson. Here is a transcript.

You can’t see the Piasa bird murals anymore because they were destroyed by a man quarrying stone in 1847, but the descriptions exist, and the creatures are intriguing.

Summer is coming. Here are four mocktails, which can have alcohol added if you like, that all look cool and refreshing.