The control room of the CBC Saskatchewan radio studio from which The Afternoon Edition issues, just minutes before I went on today for my biweekly appearance with Colin Grewar to talk about science. (What I talked about will, of course, appear as my weekly science column on this blog tomorrow.)
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Bonus Photo of the Weekend: Me, Singing "Just A Closer Walk"
Here I am singing “Just A Closer Walk” with the alumni chorus at Western Christian College‘s 2006 Homecoming over the weekend. As I mentioned earlier, it was my 30th reunion; most of the people (though not all) you see behind me in this picture were my classmates. An alumni chorus, made up of any current …
Filtering viruses out of your blood
This could be big, even though it’s aimed at the very, very tiny: a portable device for filtering viruses out of the blood–smallpox, Ebola, avian flu, you name it. (Via Transterrestrial Musings.)
What’s wrong with this sentence?
From New Scientist’s Latest Headlines site: The silence of a frigid, perpetually dark crater at the Moon’s South Pole will soon be shattered. A new mission, announced by NASA on Monday, aims to smash an SUV-sized impactor straight into the crater in late 2008. No, no it won’t. No matter how big the impactor or …
The 3D Museum
Have you ever wished you could pick up the fossils in a museum and turn them this way and that to get a better look? Now you can.
Hearing glasses
No, that’s not a typo; this new Dutch invention amplifies sounds for wearers coming from the direction they are looking, while suppressing other background sounds, allowing people with hearing difficulties to single out the voice of another person in a crowd, for example. An excellent idea! (Via Medgadget.)
The first sentence I wrote today…
“But the Lesser Barrier goes deep underground, as well as making a complete dome,” Karl said, remembering lessons with Tagaza. Bonus SF&F writing note: the above is a small example of an infodump. For completeness’s sake, here is the first sentence I wrote Saturday (no writing Sunday, thanks to high school reunioning and Candide rehearsing): …
Belated photo of the (Satur)Day: First Dandelion
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Photo of the Day: Two Thirds of Ephriam
This weekend my high school class (Western Christian College, class of 1976) is one of the honored classes at Homecoming–in other words, it’s our 30th reunion. Tonight Homecoming kicked off with an alumni concert. I sang “Me” from Beauty and the Beast and “Old Man River” from Showboat, and then Jim Mann, now an architect …
The first sentence I wrote today was…
“How would you help, Your Highness, and why should we trust you to do so?”
The first sentence I wrote today was…
Sodic bentonite is a type of clay that swells to many times its dry volume when wet. However, the first sentence of fiction I wrote today was…Karl rolled out of bed and pressed his naked back against the wall.
Photo of the Day: Gothic
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