…and NASA has the video.
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Older, wiser…and happier!
Everyone knows that young people are much happier than old people. There’s just one problem with this truism. Like many other things that “everyone knows,” it isn’t actually true. That’s the conclusion of a unique study recently carried out by researchers at VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System and the University of Michigan. The researchers conducted …
We must colonize space!
Hey, it’s not just my opinion. Stephen Hawking thinks so, too.
The fountain of youth…
…found in Korea?
More on that Norwegian meteorite…
The Norwegian newspaper that reported on the meteorite that hit a remote part of that country last week has a follow-up article, complete with a photo of the impact site. It looks like the comparison to the Hiroshima bomb was probably an over-estimation: Truls Lynne Hansen of the Northern Lights Observatory (Nordlysobservatoriet) in Tromsø disputes …
Photo of the Day: A Fungus Among Us
More photos here. More on the mushrooms of Saskatchewan here.
This is very, very small, but it could be big
I get a lot of hits on my main website to my column(s) on water desalination. I may have to revisit the topic soon, according to an article in Technology Review: “A water desalination system using carbon nanotube-based membranes could significantly reduce the cost of purifying water from the ocean. The technology could potentially provide …
If you have a math test coming up…
…you might want to try to get hold of this research device: A minority of people with autism have one or more extraordinary intellectual talents, such as the rapid ability to calculate the day of the week for a given date, or to count large numbers of discrete objects almost instantaneously – they’re often called …
Keep your fingers crossed…
…that this pans out: “A compound that prevents and reverses Alzheimer’s disease in lab mice is starting early drug safety trials in humans.”
Another Lost in Translation blurb
I received another very nice blurb today for the cover of the DAW paperback of my novel Lost in Translation coming out this October: In Ed Willett’s universe, greed and intrigue aren’t unique to humankind, and humans and S’sinn aliens are the stuff of each others’ nightmares. One human and one S’sinn, called to translate …
My daughter the poet
I’m Very Glad That I’m A Leaf I’m very glad that I’m a leaf.I flutter and I fly,And when I have to go awayI never say goodbye. –Alice Willett, not-quite 5 P.S. A note from the author: “That last bit is kind of sad.”
Photo of the Day: Wet Street
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