From Live Science: “…a team headed by Dr. Moshe Shoham of Haifa’s Technion has created a novel propulsion system for a miniature robot to travel through the spinal canal, powering through cerebrospinal fluid.”
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The first sentence I wrote today…
It took Richard only two minutes to discover that his carefully laid plans to disable the Orbital Bombardment System from the bridge would not work.Current word count: 91,634New words this session: 1,807Percentage of novel completed: 91.6 Over 90 percent done! Woo-hoo! The end (er, THE END) is near…
"Aliens could attack at any time"
That’s what the former head of Britain’s Ministry of Defence’s UFO project says.
Photo of the Day: Another View from My Office
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The first sentence I wrote today…
Emily didn’t like the way Richard looked. Current word count: 89,827New words this session: 1,814Percentage of novel completed: 89.8 No, this hasn’t turned into some kind of chicklit novel. See, Richard is injured at this point, and Emily is worried about him. She actually thinks he’s very handsome…well, for a non-genetically modified human. I hope …
An electronic music stand
How long before something like this becomes de rigeur for symphony orchestras? Wish we’d had it back when I was a French horn player in concert band.
The first sentence I wrote today…
As she waited with Richard for the airlock to cycle and let them through into the Sanctification, Emily slipped her laser pistol from its holster. Current word count: 88,013New words this session: 3,280Percentage of novel completed: 88.0 Another very SFfish sentence to start with today, what with a cycling airlock and a laser pistol, to …
Photo of the Day: The Light Fantastic
More photos here. P.S. An interesting optical illusion I just discovered. If you stare at this picture, the colored ball will appear to move around slightly against the black background. (Or maybe that’s just me…)
The first sentence I wrote today…
The first Chris Keating knew of the arrival of the Holy Warriors aboard BPS Sanctification was the shrilling of an alarm that woke him from a deep sleep. Current word count: 84,733New words this session: 3,117Percentage of novel completed: 84.7 Two good sessions today. Just a little over 15,000 words to go to 100,000. (Whether …
Not just lemon juice
Two Michigan State University researchers have unlocked the secret invisible-ink formula used by the former East Germany secret police, the Stasi: The Stasi’s technique of transferring top-secret messages worked like a piece of carbon paper. An agent would place a piece of paper impregnated with the chemical cerium oxalate between two pieces of plain paper. …
Nominated for the Giller…
…but full of errors. I have sympathy for both the author and the proofreaders–Lord knows I make plenty of my own errers…er, errors…but these seem particularly blatant. The proofreaders certainly shouldn’t have missed them, but the author should have caught them himself when he read the galleys.
The 2006 Ig Nobel Prizes
Scientists have a pop-culture reputation as either a) boring or b) mad. That they are not necessarily the former (although, based on the evidence, the jury is still out on the latter) was proven once again last month with the annual awarding of the Ig Nobel Prizes “for research which first makes you laugh, then …
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