I learned all my science from the back of the Economist, the late lamented Tomorrow's World, the plotlnes of Star Trek and the pages of DC Comics. That has served me well enough to bluff myself through a legal career (including a phase acting for computer scientists in Cambridge), but I have always had more of an unsatisfied holy curiosity about the subject than most arts and social sciences graduates. 

I think the linked blog is going to be a useful and amusing supplement to my other sources.