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Reminds of many Science Fiction/Fantasy shorts I listen to on Clarkesworld Magazine like this one.

It's funny how our imaginations aren't that far off from potential planetary catastrophe in any humanly direction we chose. Put your tinfoil hats on and jump into your bunker with your MRE's, it's gonna be a wild ride!

This Sci Fi story based on 'The Thing' has a great closing line

http://clarkesworldmagazine.co...

42% of Americans Under 8 Have a... Digital Device to Do Parenting and Handle Any Amount of Attention for them so they can dabble on their device(s). Shameless, really.

Reminds me of a Geoff Ryman sci-fi short I just listened to not too long ago about BESTsi doing all-things-parenting because mom was to pre-occupied with her own life.

In 2016 Slashdot will finally stop the pretense of being "News for Nerds" and admit that it is far more centered on entertainment than substance... as it has been since 2006 or even earlier, I can't recall.

Straw poll: who remembers the early days, when it really was about technology not of the "bigger flat-screen for the StupidBowl than you" or "Twelve Dumb Things to do with your New Drone" sort?

(is the capthca run by a really good AI? It gave me "bleaker", so apropos...)

If you like The Thing then read this. It is a short story from The Thing's point of view.

>>>If you wave an estimated $90 per month (which may very by market), you can get HBO Go.

P.S. I just donated $90 to Clarkesworld magazine. Why? Because they gave me not just one month, but 6 YEARS of entertainment. (Including expensive narrators reading the stories to you.) All of it archived here: http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/prior/

Fie on HBO, Comcast, et cetera and their ripoff ~$1100 a year cost. I'd be willing to pay a la carte service like Sirius XM has ($8 for any 40 channels of your choice) but not huge amounts. Me not rich. ;-) I'll just use the freebie antenna TV. Plus hulu. Plus reading.

Via these magazines he can learn to read AND learn science at the same time:
http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/prior/
http://www.astronomy.com/
http://www.sciencenews.com/
AND audio/video courses on chemistry (a lot of this stuff you can download for free off isohunt.com) http://www.thegreatcourses.com/tgc/search/search.aspx?searchphrase=chemistry

Pont him here too: My love of science started with magazines, because of the potential to learn new things.
http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/prior/
http://sciencenews.com/
http://astronomy.com/
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/ (formerly NatGeo World)

Add to that list two other SFWA pro markets:

Fantasy Magazine (online) http://www.darkfantasy.org/fantasy/
Clarkesworld Magazine (online)

Like Subterranean, these are both free fiction supported by the small press (book publishers) that publish them. (Prime and Wyrm, respectively) Both have also published dead-tree anthologies of stories from their online magazines.