Friday’s Culture Casserole: Termination Shock, A Short Story

  In this comic, chilling tale of information overload, an alienated NASA scientist called in to consult on an electronic quarantine situation, finds the best minds of his generation drooling at their keyboards as streams of alluring images from outer space lock...

Friday’s Culture Casserole: The R Strategy, A Short Story

How to address one of the developed world’s most intractable public health crises? We just may need alien intervention. In “The R Strategy,” Mike Di Paola offers a modest proposal in sci-fi clothing. This witty, horrifying story may cause you to reconsider your...

From Waste to Worth

In his latest column, Texaco, BP, Sewage Share New York Newtown Creek’s History of Deadly Abuse, Mike Di Paola features the efforts of the Newton Creek Alliance to transform the planet!  

Animals and The After-Life?

If you’ve ever wondered what will happen to your pets at the end of days (or even if you’re like me and never considered it), columnist Mike Di Paola reports on a controversial solution in Is Your Cat, Fish, Dog or Parakeet Rapture Ready?...

Who Knew Waste Could be a Good Thing?

If you wait long enough, even the smelliest of garbage dumps become pleasingly scented parks. Mike Di Paola reports on Staten Island’s infamous Fresh Kills landfill site which is soon to be a park larger than Central Park.  It also generates millions of dollars in...