Well, I did it again: led the Seven-Sentence Short Story workshop (created by science fiction and fantasy author James van Pelt) at a writing conference, this time, Wordbridge in Lethbridge, Alberta. Here’s the story I …
It’s time for this year’s Kickstarter to fund Shapers of Worlds Volume V, the fifth in the series of anthologies featuring science fiction and fantasy by authors who were guests on my Aurora Award-winning podcast, The …
It takes money to publish books, and most of that money flows out the door before the book is released and sales begin, so my publishing company, Shadowpaw Press, is turning to Crowdfundr to help …
Shapers of Worlds Volume IV, the fourth anthology featuring authors who were guests on my podcast, The Worldshapers, is now available everywhere, including directly from Shadowpaw Press. Here’s a handy universal URL with links to …
My publishing company, Shadowpaw Press, has three great titles coming out in the first two months of 2024, all of them science fiction or fantasy. The first two, The Good Soldier by Nir Yaniv and …
Here’s another seven-sentence short story! I ran the workshop again at Ganbatte, an anime convention in Saskatoon. It went well, and here’s the one I created, again with the instructions, created by noted SF short-story …
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What’s 50 percent of 50 percent?
According to a new study, there’s a less than 50 percent chance that the results of any randomly chosen scientific paper are true.
But that means there is a less than 50 percent chance that the new study that says there’s a less than 50 percent chance that the results of any randomly chosen scentific paper are true is true, which means that actually there could be a much better (or possibly much worse) chance that the results of any randomly chosen scientific paper are true, which means, if the former, that it’s more than likely correct that less than half are true, but, if the latter, it’s more than likely incorrect that less than half are true, and in fact many more than half are true, but then…but then…
Um…what was I just saying?
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