British science weekly New Scientist has a twitter feed, @newscientist, linking to online versions of most brief news items from the magazine. Alternatively, buy the actual magazine for the more in-depth features, which are eye-opening and inspiring, and surprisingly understandable. The Wellcome Trust does a lot of work linking the arts and sciences (including a screenwriting competition that's just closed for entries), and their site has a lot of links and information. Until this week (!) they did have a weekly new e-mail, but that's now ended and is being replaced by... something. Check their website.

io9.com clarkesworldmagazine.com locusmag.com tor,com strangehorizons.com syfy.com asimovs.com Fantasy & Science Fiction (magazine) in print, their website is not a great resource.

New Scientist is good, but they often play a little loosey-goosey. I'd recommend: http://www.badastronomy.com http://www.nature.com/news/ http://www.popsci.com/ http://scienceblogs.com/ http://www.sciencedaily.com/news http://www.sciencenews.org/ http://www.sciencemag.org/news http://www.scientificamerican.com/ http://www.nytimes.com/pages/science/index.html http://slashdot.org http://www.wired.com For the brave: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/ http://arxiv.org

and before I forget: http://www.nasa.gov/news/index.html http://www.esa.int/esaCP/index.html

There are a few academic courses on science fiction on the web. One is https://class.coursera.org/fantasysf-2012-001/class/index (the link might not work unless you are enrolled), The same lecturer, Prof Rabkin, also has lots of scifi lectures on DVD available from www.thegreatcourses.com Another at Univ of Kansas http://www.sfcenter.ku.edu/ Also, there is this one: http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/science_fiction/sfgradsyllabus.html There are also several courses listed here: http://www.speculativeliterature.org/Academics/college.php I would call them resources but i would not say you "must track" them, so maybe they are a bit OT.

In terms of DVD commentaries: Anything by Joss Whedon...that man is a treasure trove of creative insight and witty banter. Serenity is good (both tracks) Several Firefly episodes, specifically Objects in Space. Dollhouse has a few good commentary episodes Also Dr Horrible's Sing Along Blog for obvious reasons. (there should be more sci-fi musicals in the world, don't you think?) The Matrix Trilogy commentary is good, especially the philosophy tracks, which good sci-fi is all about. The Alien/s/3/etc commentary is all interesting in different ways...from production to storytelling. The Incredibles is good for Brad Bird.. And Wall-E Pretty much any Pixar film can be counted on to give good commentary. I haven't heard it, but Brad Bird is also on the commentary for The Iron Giant...I'm going to go out on a pretty sturdy limb by assuming that would also be informative. Ronald Moore has commentary/podcasts for almost every (if not all of) Battlestar Galactica episodes. The thing that makes this commentary interesting is (for good or ill) not affected by time. He was making a lot of these as podcasts that would be out the week of the episode. So the information is pretty fresh and he gives pretty specific anecdotes about the reasons some things worked some didn't and the places where the writing is admittedly crap because he just ran out of time. The Battlestar wiki also has transcripts of many of these: http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/List_of_Podcasts Oh...and any commentary anywhere by Jane Espenson will be informative...because she's just that cool.

A remarkable list of resources has been suggested so far, but there's still room for more. DVD Commentaries Anything by Joss Whedon…that man is a treasure trove of creative insight and witty banter. - Serenity is good (both tracks) - Several Firefly episodes, specifically Objects in Space. - Dollhouse has a few good commentary episodes - Also Dr Horrible’s Sing Along Blog for obvious reasons. (there should be more sci-fi musicals in the world, don’t you think?) The Matrix Trilogy commentary is good, especially the philosophy tracks, which good sci-fi is all about. The Alien/s/3/etc commentary is all interesting in different ways…from production to storytelling. The Incredibles is good for Brad Bird.. And Wall-E Pretty much any Pixar film can be counted on to give good commentary. I haven’t heard it, but Brad Bird is also on the commentary for The Iron Giant…I’m going to go out on a pretty sturdy limb by assuming that would also be informative. Ronald Moore has commentary/podcasts for almost every (if not all of) Battlestar Galactica episodes. The thing that makes this commentary interesting is (for good or ill) not affected by time. He was making a lot of these as podcasts that would be out the week of the episode. So the information is pretty fresh and he gives pretty specific anecdotes about the reasons some things worked some didn’t and the places where the writing is admittedly crap because he just ran out of time. The Battlestar wiki also has transcripts of many of these: http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/List_of_Podcasts Oh…and any commentary anywhere by Jane Espenson will be informative…because she’s just that cool. Magazines asimovs.com clarkesworldmagazine.com Fantasy & Science Fiction (magazine) in print, their website is not a great resource io9.com locusmag.com New Scientist strangehorizons.com syfy.com tor.com Online (Academic) Science Fiction Courses https://class.coursera.org/fantasysf-2012-001/class/index (the link might not work unless you are enrolled), The same lecturer, Prof Rabkin, also has lots of scifi lectures on DVD available from http://www.thegreatcourses.com Another at Univ of Kansas http://www.sfcenter.ku.edu/ Also, there is this one: http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/science_fiction/sfgradsyllabus.html There are also several courses listed here: http://www.speculativeliterature.org/Academics/college.php   Twitter Feeds @newscientist - British science weekly New Scientist has a twitter feed, @newscientist, linking to online versions of most brief news items from the magazine. Websites http://arxiv.org http://boingboing.net http://scienceblogs.com/ http://slashdot.org http://www.badastronomy.com http://www.esa.int/esaCP/index.html http://www.nasa.gov/news/index.html http://www.nature.com/news/ http://www.nytimes.com/pages/science/index.html http://www.popsci.com/ http://www.sciencedaily.com/news http://www.sciencemag.org/news http://www.sciencenews.org/ http://www.scientificamerican.com/ http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/ http://www.wired.com http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/ - The Wellcome Trust does a lot of work linking the arts and sciences (including a screenwriting competition that’s just closed for entries), and their site has a lot of links and information.

1.) The Empire Strikes Back 2.) Back to the Future 3.) 2001: A Space Odyssey 4.) Terminator 2: Judgement Day 5.) A Clockwork Orange 6.) Blade Runner 7.) Avatar 8.) Inception 9.) Minority Report 10.) Donnie Darko