Jason Dunn, co-founder and CTO of Made In Space, responds to “The Man Who Sold the Moon” on Singularity Hub.

Gizmag’s Eric Mack reports on Liftport, a Kickstarter-funded project to create an elevator connecting the Moon to the Earth.

In an article for Slate magazine’s Future Tense channel, Annalee Newitz argues that urban planners should read more science fiction.

But we need penguins. Nobody would want to go to Antarctica and not see penguins!

The big idea: a hotel in Antarctica. Why not?

Have you considered using ice as not the only, but as one of your hotel’s building materials?

Getting through the valley of death is the hard part. Yes, we do need bold ideas– but how do we turn them into iron realities?

Foursquare Data Scientist Michael Li talks probabilities, integers and Bayesian Smoothing.

Neal Stephenson and Cory Doctorow discuss the possibilities for moon dust.

A student research project about a method for sorting lunar regolith by size, produced at the University of Washington as part of NASA’s Microgravity University program and overseen by James J. Riley, professor of mechanical engineering.