Here’s the detailed schedule for “Six Impossible Things,” the two-week tour of Canadian speculative fiction being hosted by Nalo Hopkinson for CBC’s Between the Covers. Looks like I’m leading things off; my story “Strange Harvest” will air on Monday, May 16, with Terence M. Green’s “Room 1786.” Between the Covers airs weekday afternoons at 2:30 …
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Early aircraft design
I love airplanes. (I don’t actually enjoy flying very much, but I love the look of the craft that make it possible.) Check out this fascinating gallery of early aircraft designs. The remarkable thing is that, even though they’re from the early 20th century, many of them still look futuristic. And if you’re wondering why …
This is…motivational
My book Genetics Demystified is listed on Amazon…and I haven’t turned it in, yet (though I will, soon). And (par for the course) the “About the Author” bit misspells my name. As did the Globe Theatre in its program for Twelfth Night. As did the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan in its …
Paleogallery
Check out this gallery of paleontological art from the Smithsonian. Fascinating to anyone with an interest in museum art–either the subject matter, or the techniques used to make it.
Sucking up…so to speak
Check out this inexpensive one-person vacuum elevator, which can be “slotted into an existing building with a minimum of fuss.” Very futuristic.
At last: a home disintegrator!
Science fiction headline of the day: “Disintegrator Plus™: Harnessing the Power of Plasma”. Yes, it’s a home disintegrator, the dream of all little SF-reading boys everywhere come true at last. *Sniff.* I’m getting all misty-eyed…
Science fiction in the news
I just dabble with my occasional “Science Fiction headline of the day” feature. Technovelgy.com has built a whole section of his (highly recommended) Web site around it.
Virtualized reality
Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have come up with a new–and much faster–way to create an accurate 3D model of an urban landscape. The new technique will be used by the military first, but soon enough car rental agencies, emergency workers, urban planners and, you can bet, computer game developers will be finding …
Re-recording the past
The dangers of the rate at which state-of-the-art technology becomes obsolete are illustrated by this story about the Field Museum’s efforts to re-record voice recordings from 1958 describing more than 6,000 artificats collected by Captain A. W. F. Fuller. It’s a little disturbing to find out that what was state-of-the-art the year before I was …
Sex in the brain
Boys and girls are different…and not just in the obvious ways. Even their brains are wired differently–which has implications for everything from education to the treatment of mental disorders. The differences between the male and female brain are the focus of a lengthy article by Larry Cahill, a neurobiologist at the University of California in …
Life on Mars likely?
Here’s an update on the prospects for finding life on Mars…and those prospects, many scientists are beginning to believe, are excellent.
Burning fossil fuels with no carbon dioxide release?
Pie in the sky? An awful lot of people don’t think so. It so happens there’s a major carbon-dioxide-using enhanced oil recovery project just about an hour south of here, down in my old stomping grounds around Weyburn.
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