Successful-author-and-blogger John Scalzi hits the nail on the head in explaining why publishers are nuts to hand huge advances for books to bloggers on the basis of their having a successful blog: “Being a blogger is a bit like being that lady in the supermarket who hands out free samples. You see her, you stop …
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Here’s a headline you don’t see every day:
“Ancient Pregnant Reptile Fossil Discovered Under Pingpong Table.”
An effective treatment to halt Alzheimer’s in the early stages?
Possibly. Drugs that stimulate a receptor in the brain that controls insulin responses look very promising…and one of them has already been approved for human use in the treatment of Type-2 diabetes. (Via FuturePundit.)
A tabletop high-energy particle accelerator?
Not quite. But scientists a the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, along with researchers at Oxford, have used a process called laser wakefield acceleration to accelerate electron beams to energies exceeding a billion electron volts (1GeV) in just 3.3 centimeters. They think they could make a 10GeV accelerator that’s only a metre …
The first sentence I wrote today…
There were no more incididents between the ruined laboratory and the dock, however; in fact, they didn’t see anyone living at all. Current word count: 28,172New words this session: 649Percentage of novel completed: 28.1 I only managed to scrounge half an hour of fiction-writing time today, hence the low verbiage. But half an hour is …
"Medically induced skin tans": an oxymoron?
Nope. New research is rewriting our understanding of how skin tans, and may point the way to methods to protect fair-skinned people from melanoma.
Overt 350 years of scientific papers…
…are now online, courtesy of The Royal Society: “Nearly three and a half centuries of scientific study and achievement is now available online in the Royal Society Journals Digital Archive following its official launch this week. This is the longest-running and arguably most influential journal archive in Science, including all the back articles of both …
Red rain revisited
The mysterious (alien?) red rain of Kerala: an update.
The first sentence I wrote today…
Richard had surprised himself with his intense interest in exactly why Chris Keating had betrayed his planet, and as he looked at the ruins of the laboratory where Keating had worked, it crossed his mind that maybe he wanted to understand Keating’s betrayal in order to shed light on his own. Current word count: 27,523New …
More good health news about wine
A new study has found that “moderate red wine consumption in a form of Cabernet Sauvignon may help reduce the incidence of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD).”
The first space hotel!
Robert Bigelow plans to put up the first private space station (or space hotel, if you like), big enough for three people, in late 2009 or early 2010, reports Rand Simberg.
The first sentence I wrote today…
“Why did you do it?” Hansen suddenly asked him as they walked down a rubble-strewn street toward what was left of the laboratory where Chris had worked. Current word count: 26,095New words this session: 927Percentage of novel completed: 26.1 A smallish helping of new words today, and none at all yesterday…I need to pull up …
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