No, really, that’s what this story says, although personally I’d take it with a grain of salt as large as you’d get if the Dead Sea evaporated completely. Here’s Dr. Jones’s own Web site.
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A smile from the Queen
Queen Elizabeth II smiles as she accepts flowers from my daughter, Alice, May 18, 2005, in front of the Legislative Building in Regina, Saskatchewan. See previous post for details!
Waiting for the Queen
My almost-four-year-old daughter Alice waits in the rain for her chance to give flowers to Queen Elizabeth yesterday morning, May 18. Alice and I and a family friend made the trek around the end of the lake Wednesday morning to see Queen Elizabeth be officially welcomed to Canada. We took flowers, more in the faint …
Live performances from dead pianists
A remarkable concert in Raleigh, North Carolina, this Thursday, May 19, will feature Glenn Gould performing excerpts from Bach’s Goldberg Variations, and the great French pianist Alfred Cortot playing a Chopin Prelude, on a nine-foot Yamaha grand piano. What’s remarkable about it is that Gould died in 1982 and Cortot in 1962. But the performances …
By their covers…
you shall know them.
Space art in children’s books
Here’s a fascinating site that shows art relating to space and space travel that appeared in children’s books from 1883 to 1974 (via John Scalzi).
Our future masters, in infancy?
More on the self-replicating robots: here’s a page with pictures and video (via John Scalzi).
Robert J. Sawyer on Net.talk tomorrow
Oh, and while I’m on the subject of science fiction, Hugo and Nebula-Award winning author Robert J. Sawyer will be our guest on the Access Communications TV program Net.talk that I host every Thursday. You have to live in Regina (and be an Access subscriber) to see it, alas, but if you happen to, please …
And as long as I’m here, did you hear about the self-replicating robots?
As long as I’m blogging… Here’s today’s Science Fiction Headline of the Day: “Self-replicating robots on the loose in NY.”
Removing the itch from wool
I emerge from self-imposed blogging silence because this is news too good not to tell others about: scientists have figured out a biopolishing method that makes scratchy wool feel silky smooth. I’ve never much liked wool, ever since I was a kid, because it itches. Now, all that may be about to change. Yay!
The colours of our lives
Those of us old enough to remember Paul McCartney as a young man will also remember the fascination we all had with colour televisions. Colour gave even programs like My Mother the Car added sparkle, and as for Star Trek…well! Objectively speaking, though, colours are just certain wavelengths of light. Light, in turn, is merely …
Light blogging alert
Look for very little new here for the next week. Deadline difficulties. I’ll probably post my weekly science column tomorrow, and that’ll be about it for a few days. But I’ll be back!
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