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OK, so I’m 17 years behind the times…
Robert J. Sawyer quotes the news I posted at the head of the version of my science column emailed free to whomever wants it (you can subscribe here!) about my recent novel sale to DAW Books. Which I really appreciate, but reading his introduction, in which he wrote “Ed has twice been my writing student …
Testing for telepathy…
…via virtual reality.
Bigelow’s bouncing baby space blimp
Robert Bigelow has a lot of money. In fact, he’s a billionaire (among other things, he owns the Budget Suites of America hotel chain). Not surprisingly, he’s a big proponent of capitalism. And he also firmly believes that since capitalism works so well on Earth, it should work just as well in outer space How …
A force field to protect Mars astronauts from radiation?
Not quite, but this plasma bubble would be the next best thing.
Sorry for the lack of photos!
We’ve been working on moving (we still aren’t there, but we’re getting closer) into my mother-in-law’s house (she’ll move into our condo) and so my schedule has been disjointed. Hence the lack of photos of the day for the past week. I’ll try to resume normal photoblogging this week. For the two of you who …
Suspended animation?
Well, it won’t get shiploads of sleeping colonists to the stars, but it may save lives–if it works in humans like it works in pigs.
Amazing maize maze honors Star Trek
In honor of the 40th anniversary of Star Trek, Tom Pearcy cut this maze in a cornfield on his farm near York in northern England.
An end to the misery of allergies?
That’s what London scientists are forecasting. Hey, maybe we can get a cat after all!
A gallery of toy ray guns
Breathes there a boy with soul so deadWho never on his blog has said,“You know what I think’s way way way fun?“Blasting aliens with a ray gun!”
Ride into space with Discovery…
…via video footage shot from the external boosters. Look in the video gallery at NASA’s Space Shuttle Multimedia page.
My latest live walk and vlog
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