Continuum

Continuum has been renewed for one last season

"The Canadian series, which stars Rachel Nichols as a well-meaning fascist from the future and Erik Knudson as her sidekick, Teenage Canadian Steve Jobs, will return for a six-episode fourth season, set to air next year. Hopefully, those six episodes will give creator Simon Barry and his staff time to close the book on the series’ convoluted but entertaining take on militarized police forces, idealistic terrorists, and magical skintight spy suits, since the fourth season will be the show’s last."

Ferguson

Someone tweets:

Excuse me, but I was promised a corporate cyberpunk dystopia and not this rerun-of-1960s-Bull-Connor-America dystopia

Orphan Black

Entertainment Weekly Orphan Black cover photo

Helix

Annalee Newitz reviews "Single Strand" from Helix

I Boldly Went Where Every Star Trek Movie and TV Show Has Gone Before by Yglesias

this weird Canadian science fiction renaissance

AV Club review of Orphan Black's pilot

The series is also a part of this weird Canadian science fiction renaissance we’re in right now. Fellow members include Lost Girl and Continuum, and like both of those shows, the low-budget production values will be a deal-breaker for some. (The show is so low-budget that there are few—if any—times when Maslany shares the screen with herself, seemingly a prerequisite for a series about people who look identical to each other.) But for those who can look past the low budget and get over their fears about how on Earth this could possibly be a long-running series instead of a miniseries, there’s so much fun to be had in the depths of Orphan Black’s labyrinthine plotting and endless forward momentum, and there’s even more fun to be had watching the young woman at its center make her way through the maze.

(This Succubus wears no underwear!)

AV Club reviews season 3 finale of Lost Girl

I have a TV crush on TV character Tamsin the Valkyrie played by Rachel Skarsten. Lame I know....

Syfy channel says the show will be back in 2014.

Julie Benz plays Amanda Rosewater the mayor of Defiance. I'd vote for her!

The Crystal Ball

Hari Seldon and the Psychohistorians.

As Yglesias and others argue, what's needed is better economic forecasting. Part of this I would argue is Risk Topography, something Alan Greenspan failed to do very well. Not only Greenspan though. The entire financial services industry nearly destroyed itself because of its rampant gluttony And of course the regulators and ratings agencies were bought-off enablers.

After election night, Nate Silver's The Signal and the Noise shot up 850% to 2nd place on Amazon.

AV Club review of Alphas second season finale

Krugman's intro to the Foundation Trilogy

The Enterprise's Two Greatest Captains Discuss the Problem of Utility Monopolies by Yglesias

Comic-con panel on Firefly