Browse this gallery of the top photos in this year’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, organised by London’s Natural History Museum.
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Your personal helicopter is ready…
…courtesy of the Japanese. But would you really want to wear a skirt while flying such a thing?
The Visual Index of Science Fiction Cover Art
That’s Visco for short, and I can’t believe I haven’t run across this amazing site before. If you love pulpy SF art–who doesn’t?–you’ll love this site. (It also includes the much better recent cover art of existing magazines.)
I am the Walrus…
…well, no, I’m not, but what else can you title a post about a congressional report in the U.S. endorsing the idea of buying heavy-lift airships–like the Walrus, a proposed hybrid airship capable of carrying 500 tons over 6,000 miles within a week, without refueling–to get troops and equipment where needed?
Remember how much I hated Spielberg’s War of the Worlds?
Phil Plait of the Bad Astronomy Web site liked it more than I did–but reading his review just reminded me of how much I disliked it.
You know what this means, don’t you? Your owner has got to go
Are you a cat suffering from asthma? I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but you may be allergic to humans, or at least affected by some of their nasty habits. I know they’re cute when they’re young, but really, maybe it’s time you got rid of those apes-with-delusions-of-grandeur. Dump them outside to …
Flour power
Flour may seem, at first glance, like a boring white powder. But it’s much more than that. To begin with, it’s likely to have been made from wheat grown right here in Saskatchewan (which grows about 50 percent of Canada’s wheat). But more than that, it’s scientifically interesting (something I’ve found to be true of …
Another step toward the Singularity?
Scientists at The University of Manchester have discovered a new method of linking qubit rings, pieces of quantum information–which could hold the key to creating the first practical quantum computers.
"It’s a small world after all…"
Sorry for putting that annoying Disney earworm into your head, but it was too obvious a headline not to use for a link to a gallery of the top photographs in Nikon’s annual Small World Photomicrography Competition, described as “the leading forum for showcasing the beauty and complexity of life as seen through the light …
Nanobombs away!
Researchers at the University of Delaware have developednanobombs that could be used to literally blow up cancer cells–and the biological pathways that carry instructions to generate additional cells and the small veins that nourish them. (Via MedGadget).
Police technology research centre coming to Regina
The Canadian Police Research Centre, a 26-year-old national agency that studies the latest crime-fighting technology, is planning to set up its new headquarters and research facility right here in Regina. From the CPRC website: The Canadian Police Research Centre (CPRC) is a partnership among the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, the Royal Canadian Mounted …
Random notes from Writing With Style
I kept meaning to blog some of the stuff we talked about at the Writing With Style workshop at the Banff Centre led by Robert J. Sawyer…and didn’t. But even though it’s been so long now I can’t really put them in context, here are the notes I took. Presumably, these were the things that …
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