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Photo of the Day: City Hall

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Bonus Photo of the Weekend to Make Up For Not Posting a Photo of the Day on Friday: Let’s Go!

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Photo of the Weekend: Yum!

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Belated Photo of the (Yester)Day That Was Actually Taken A Few Days Ago: City, Sky, Water

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A robotic classroom representative for sick children

When I was a kid, a missed several weeks of Grade 5 (I think it was) because I was suffering from rheumatic fever. I wish I’d had one of these.

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“British men have worst sex lives, Canadians the best.”

Future job opportunity:

Orbital gas jockey.

Is it raining alien life?

That’s one hypothesis to explain the mysterious blood-red particles that fell in rainshowers across northern India in 2001: they could be microbes adapted to living in outer space who rode a meteor into the atmosphere and were scattered through rainclouds when the meteor broke apart.

Photo of the Day: Three in a Row

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He likes it! He really likes it!

I’ve mentioned that I’ve been working on a couple of synopses for possible novels (one a sequel to Lost in Translation, one completely new) for submission to my agent, Ethan Ellenberg. I finally polished those up and sent them off yesterday, and had a phone call this morning–he likes them! Keep your fingers crossed for …

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Europe’s oldest book…

…is about to reveal more of its secrets, thanks to Multi-Spectral Imaging, a technology I wrote about here.

Why water freezes faster after heating

The answer to an age-old mystery may have been found…though it awaits experimental evidence.