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It’s another SF headline!

If you aren’t aware of this, the grand race of robotic vehicles from Los Angeles to Las Vegas this weekend, you should be. Another SF-story-come-to-life, if ever I saw one.

It’s very early going yet, but Canada is looking at its own Mars rover.

Another science fiction headline: Demand for cadavers fuels illegal trade. (Maybe even the prototypical SF headline, if you accept Brian Aldiss’s argument that Frankenstein was the first SF novel.)

First I’ve heard of this, which is alarming in and of itself, don’t you think?

Perhaps not exactly the response one would expect from an archbishop reviewing the stage version of Philip Pullman’s notoriously anti-religion, anti-God trilogy His Dark Materials, but the review itself makes all clear–and makes a lot of sense.

The study does NOT say that Virgins have same rate of sexually transmitted diseases as non-virgins; that’s ridiculous on the face of it. If you haven’t had sex, you’re unlikely to have developed a sexually transmitted disease. It says kids who pledge abstinence don’t have a lower rate of STDs than kids who do. That …

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Hubble provides a glimpse of the universe from a mere 700 million years after the Big Bang. Awwww, it’s so cute!

I may be indulging in wishful thinking, but it’s been so warm this week I may surely be forgiven for hoping that spring is finally here. The only downside to that is that in Saskatchewan, snow season is followed promptly by mosquito season. Fortunately, mosquito control techniques continue to advance, as the recent American Mosquito …

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This is a test of blogging by e-mail. Whee!

Will nanotechnology transform our lives or simply incrementally improve them? The nanotechnologists are divided.

Hubble has captured an image that reminds many of Van Gogh’s famous painting Starry Night. Well…maybe a bit. But whether it does or not, it’s magnificent.