This NASA story, about how the Moon bears witness to the early history of the solar system, and could tell us whether “extinction events” caused by heavy bombardments from outer space really recur every 26 million years on Earth as some have hypothesized, is headlined “The Moon is a harsh witness.” Somebody there has read …
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Rise of the robots…
Next stop, the Terminator? Singapore is launching a contest to build “urban warrior robots.”
Huge water reservoirs hidden beneath the Martian surface?
The possibility has suddenly become far more likely. If…if…it pans out, a round trip to Mars just become both much more appealing and much easier. And the likelihood of life on the fourth planet much greater. (As an aside, note that the Mars atmosphere expert quoted at the end of the story is named David …
Electric sheep and the androids who dream of them:
“Biomimetic Technologies Project Will Create First Soft-Bodied Robots .”
And…I’m back
The reading went fine, but the best part of the evening was on my way out of the lobby. I stopped at the front desk to ask the young woman there if she would call me a cab. Which she did. I was carrying Lost in Translation, of course, and she noticed it and said, …
Saskatoon afternoon
So here I am in Saskatoon, blogging to you live from the Radisson. The bus ride up was uneventful, if foggy in spots (see the previous post with a shot I rather hastily took out the bus window as we pulled into Davidson). I arrived a good 45 minutes before I needed to be at …
Photo of the Day: Davidson, Saskatchewan, 10 a.m.
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Farming mutates into pharming:
“Genetically modified chickens lay drugs in eggs.”
Dual-task interference
You can see them a kilometer away. You notice the car driving a) slowly or b) erratically or c) both. And then you get closer…and can see the cellphone glued to the driver’s ear. Everyone pays lip service to the notion that cellphoning while driving is a bad idea…and yet some people still do it. …
I’ll be reading in Saskatoon tomorrow night, January 24…
…at McNally Robinson Bookstore, from Lost in Translation. 7 p.m. If you’re in the vicinity, come say hi! To my astonishment, I just discovered yesterday that McNally Robinson chose to put my picture (the same one you see over there in the left sidebar) in their ad for upcoming events at their stores in Winnipeg, …
"Bones" McCoy, call your office:
Your hand-held miniaturized rapid-acting virus detector is ready. And it doesn’t look a thing like a salt shaker.
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