All 79 episodes of the original series of Star Trek are being digitally enhanced, with improved special effects, spaceships and alien landscapes and re-mastered sound: you’ll even be able to watch them in high definition. And they’ll be heading into syndication again in honor of the series’ 40th anniversary. Woo-hoo! (Via SF Signal.)
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Photo of the Recent Past: Red Panda at the Calgary Zoo
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A promising step toward a new kind of antibiotics
This sounds like good news: A 25-year quest to identify the first biochemical step that many disease-causing bacteria use to build their membranes has led to a discovery that holds promise for effective, new antibiotics against these bacteria, according to investigators at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. The finding is significant because the biochemical step …
The first sentence I wrote today was…
The meeting with her parents didn’t go at all as Emily had anticipated. Current word count: 10,452New words this session: 1,236Percentage of novel completed: 10.4 I’m more than 10 percent of the way to my 100,000 words! Of course, at this point most of what I’ve written feels like crap to me, but one simply …
Photo of the Recent Past: Things You See At a Science Fiction Convention
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Physicists invent single-molecule transistors
University of Arizona physicists have discovered how to turn single molecules into working transistors. Which means what? Well, this: “With our transistors packed at maximum density, you could put a microprocessor as powerful as the top-of-the-line workstation on the back of an E. coli.”
The first sentence I wrote today was…
He spent the night in a gully beneath a rock overhang that provided shelter from the regular-as-clockwork midnight downpour of the Marcasero interior. Current word count: 9,216New words this session: 1,876Percentage of novel completed: 9.2
Extremely rare animals…
…on display (with a little help from someone with access to PhotoShop and a whole lot of spare time!). (Via ProfessorBainbridge.com.)
The first sentence I wrote today was…
Emily watched Chris Keating walk off the pier without so much as a backward glance, and felt her face burn with shame. Current word count: 7,340New words this session: 1,766Percentage of novel completed: 7.3
Photo of the Recent Past: Down in the Gully
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Yellowjackets
Late summer in Saskatchewan is a beautiful time to enjoy barbecues and outdoor concerts. Or it would be, if not for wasps: specifically, yellowjackets. Like bees (with which they share a similar coloration, but from which they can be easily distinguished: bees have thick waists, wasps have skinny ones, bees are hairy, wasps are smooth) …
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