Topics on my particular interests.
This sounds like wonderful news at first, but when you think about it a little more, it seems like a disaster waiting to happen — one that only a few SF novelists have even attempted to write about. And of those few, the only one that I’ve read (which, unfortunately, I do not recall the …
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Food for thought, especially for certain of my readers who have a little one on the way: “The triclosan findings in the younger age groups may support the ‘hygiene hypothesis,’ which maintains living in very clean and hygienic environments may impact our exposure to micro-organisms that are beneficial for development of the immune system,” said …
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I always wondered at the assertion that Earth’s oceans had to be from comets and asteroids, because I couldn’t see how there could be a heavy enough bombardment of them to make that much of a difference. (Even if the Earth is just a slightly damp ball of rock. 🙂 ) Apparently I’m not the …
First, read this, and maybe watch the video there. Then read the following passage from the book Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, published eighteen years ago (1992) and one of my favorite near-future SF novels. One of the main characters is a teenage girl who goes by the handle “YT” and couriers messages by skateboard …
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Not enough blood donors? That may not be a problem in the near future.
Sit up and pay attention, there will be random pop quizzes later — and if you fail one, your “teacher” will probably steal a good portion of your wealth, with no guarantee that you’ll ever get it back. (I’ve been on the receiving end of credit card fraud three times myself, and I’m ridiculously careful …
A little creepy, but it looks delicious. And it just goes to show that you really can find absolutely anything on the Internet. 😉
The odds are that you’ve heard about the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient (2000+ years old) mechanical device that was dredged up off of Greece more than a century ago. Four years ago, scientists finally figured out what it was for, calculating solar eclipses and other celestial events. It was really big news at the time, …
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Got any burning theological questions? Now you can get them answered… sort of. They really should put a warning on it though… “iGod cannot authorize crimes, crusades, or jihads.” 😉
I’m sure some of you have been following the Wikileaks news recently… how the founder and spokesperson for the organization, Julian Assange, has been arrested in England, over an accusation in Switzerland. There are reports, which I haven’t been able to confirm, that the US is trying to criminalize Wikileaks retroactively and get him extradited, …
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