Is the unusual, powerful burst of intermittent radio waves astronomers have detected coming from the direction of the galaxy’s center the burp of a dying pulsar–or something completely unknown to science?
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Finger finding
Apparently, the length of a man’s index finger relative to his ring finger can predict how physically aggressive that man is likely to be all his life. Women do not show a similar effect. Getting out a ruler now…
Magnificent mummy
One of the best-preserved mummies ever found has been uncovered behind a secret door hidden in a much older tomb.
Is this a playscript that I see before me?
Forsooth! By phone I have just been invited By the director of our theatre, Globe, To join withal the cast of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, For which I shall receive a modest sum. ‘Tis true that all three parts that she will give me Are small–but actors oft are heard to say, No role’s too small …
They’re here!
My new novel Lost in Translation(Cover art by Jill Bauman) Just got my authors’ copies of Lost in Translation–nice hardcovers, complete with dust jackets. I’m actually surprised by how short the book seems, even though it’s more than 300 pages. It seemed long enough when I was writing it… I do like the artwork better …
The tower of power
With Kyoto in the news and the search for non-polluting forms of energy intensifying, the time may be ripe for a whole new technology–and as it happens, there’s a company in Australia that’s got one all lined up. It’s called the Solar Tower, and I confess that the real reason I wanted to write about …
Star Trek (and Harry Potter) headline of the day…
From Nature:Engineers devise invisibility shield. OK, it won’t let you hide something the size of a human (or a starship) from visible light–but it might make some things invisible to long-range sensors–er, I mean, radar. And it involves a “plasmonic cover.” If that isn’t Star Trekish, I don’t know what is…
Genesis update
No, not Genesis as in “the creation of everything,” but Genesis as in the solar-wind probe that crashed into the Utah mud when its parachutes failed to open back in September. Scientists are successfully extracting samples of the solar wind from the damaged spacecraft–good news!
What’s that hissing sound?
Looks like we might not need to invoke some mysterious “dark energy” to explain the universe’s accelerating rate of expansion. Instead, the universe may simply be suffering from a gravity leak. Well, that’s a relief. Anyone have a bicycle patch?
Japan to the moon?
Japan’s space agency is drawing up plans for a manned moon base and its own space shuttle. The more the merrier, I say!
Looks like those ancient aliens were busy…
More giant figures found in Peru. Paging Velikovsky…
Setting sail in space
Cosmos-1, designed to test the capability of solar-sail technology is about to launch and set sail–literally–in orbit.
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