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There’s an award for everything these days, its seems, including the Ursa Major Awards for “Best Anthropomorphic LIterature and Art”. Seems a little odd to me, but I’ve never really understood “fuzzy” fandom.

That’s what they tried to find out in San Francisco today–although, oddly, this story doesn’t answer the question.

Britain once considered using chickens as “a form of heating independent of power supplies” in a plutonium landmine. No, really!

Scientists have made an ultra-pure glass in a levitation lab.

Why does anyone still listen to this man?

Today’s news-story-that-could-make-a-great-SF-story-by-someone-other-than-me-because-I-don’t-know-a-thing-about-surfing-being-from-landlocked-Saskatchewan:hanging ten on Titan.

I’ll be in Seattle next year for the North American Science Fiction Convention…and I’ll be going here for sure!

Methane may be an invisible gas, but that doesn’t mean you can ignore it. Here on Earth, it’s both a valuable resource (it’s the major constituent of natural gas) and a contributor to global warming (molecule for molecule, methane traps more than 20 times more heat than carbon dioxide). Now it appears it may also …

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And don’t I wish this was me!

This cool new phenomenon, in which light is converted to sound waves, wins my weekly award for “news story I can most easily relate to science fiction”–or would, if I offered such an award. Money quote: “Through further studies, Bozovic hopes to learn more about this phenomenon, the first step toward finding possible applications for …

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According to an Austrian doctor, picking your nose and eating it is a terrific way to stay healthy and happy.

When it comes to dead zones, Stephen King’s novel isn’t nearly as scary as the real thing.