…from CKOM News Talk 650 Radio in Saskatoon. Two days ago a producer there called to ask me to do a short telephone interview Thursday morning at 6:10 a.m. (!) about wine drinking in Saskatchewan. I agreed. The producer did mention there was a possibility that the segment would be bumped because of the then-breaking …
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My newest book is out!
I’ve seen the first copies of A Safe and Prosperous Future: 100 Years of Engineering and Geoscience Achievements in Saskatchewan; I took copies yesterday to the Saskatchewan Book Awards office to meet the September 15 deadline for entering books in this year’s competition. A Safe and Prosperous Future is published by the Association of Professional …
Historic maritime wreckage found in Saskatoon
Um, excuse me, did he just say “Saskatoon”? Yes, that’s right. Divers in Saskatoon believe they may have found the anchor from the City of Medicine Hat, which crashed into the then brand-new Victoria Street Bridge (also known as Traffic Bridge) in the spring of 1908. It was land-locked Saskatoon’s only maritime accident. Go figure.
Spider goats continue to rule…
…as the top search term bringing people to edwardwillett.com. (I’ve included the top 15 instead of just the top 10 search terms this time because “spider goats” appears out of the top 10 but combines with “spider goat” at number one to give the edge to this genetically engineered marvel): 28 spider goat 0.7% 28 …
The first sentence I wrote today…
The landing craft banked, turned, and came back for a second pass. Current word count: 21,720New words this session: 983Percentage of novel completed: 21.7
The first sentence I wrote Wednesday…
But the fear came back when another explosion shook his apartment so violently a large chunk of the ceiling dropped onto his just-vacated bed. Word count as of Wednesday: 20,737New words that session: 523Percentage of novel completed: 20.7
Why does Atkins work? YY, that’s why!
The secret to why high-protein diets work may have been found–and may lead to products that achieve the same result without forcing people to give up bread. Mmmmm…bread…
If you’re kind of a lefty on some things, and a righty on others (politically)…
…what should you be called? Here’s a contest at Pajamas Media to come up with a name. Enter to win (what else) a pair of pajamas! I’ve always hated political pigeon-holing and the assumption that because you hold position A about one topic (say, the invasion of Iraq) you must therefore hold position B about …
Neanderthals and humans lived side by side
I was going to title my link to this New Scientist article, “I wonder if Robert J. Sawyer knows about this?” I should have known better. He blogged it before I did.
The first sentence I wrote today…
“Is that it?” Dahlia asked as Emily tightened the last strap on the last of an inordinate number of bundles in the mini-sub they’d rented for their camping trip. Current word count: 20,214New words this session: 1,527Percentage of novel completed: 20.2 Over a fifth of the way through! (The first draft. With lots and lots …
This is astonishing…
Not long ago, the idea of conducting an experiment on a single strand of DNA seemed far beyond the realm of science. But thanks to rapid advances in microscopy in the last decade, researchers can now watch a single gene being transcribed from DNA–one atom at a time–or observe the activity of a protein molecule …
Interpreting the landscape from above
This week, I finally saw copies of A Safe and Prosperous Future: 100 Years of Engineering and Geoscience Achievements in Saskatchewan, the book I spent a great deal of the last year or so working on for the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan. The book is full of (I hope) interesting stories …
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