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The older I get, the better a gadget like this sounds.

I don’t think the United States Postal Service will pay much attention to me, since I’m in Canada, but if you’re in the U.S., you can help put Isaac Asimov on a stamp. Gordon van Gelder, editor of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, notes: There’s an ongoing series of stamps called the Literary …

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Will the next Martian rover be a Tumbleweed?

A team at the University of Buffalo has developed a new device that can safely and inexpensively destroy airborne biological agents in large buildings in minutes, instead of months.

No, not “Son Of Fusion,” but “sonofusion”, as in, related to sound. An exciting new development in the pursuit of low-cost fusion.

You probably don’t need me to link to this all-important finding today, since it’s all over the Web, but here’s a link anyway. You’re welcome.

Dennis Prager goes over the top, comparing those supporting same-sex marriages with Islamofascist terrorists, making a fool of himself with this sentence in the very first paragraph: The war over same-sex marriage and the war against Islamic totalitarianism are actually two fronts in the same war — a war for the preservation of the unique …

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SCIENCE Edward Willett Today’s top automobile tech During the Academy Awards telecast on Sunday, I noticed for the first time an ad from a major car company promoting its development of hydrogen-powered cars. Those are probably still 10 years away, but other technological advances for automobiles are here now. In an article in Spectrum, published …

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Rogers Cadenhead takes AP to task for its take on the Pew study on Internet usage. 2.7 million bloggers sounds like a lot to me, but what do I know?

Looks like information may survive inside a black hole after all–and Stephen Hawking loses a bet.

You know, when you start looking, the news is just full of stories with headlines that look like bad SF stories from the pulp era. LIke this one about the hordes of gigantic crabs on their way to invade Europe.

Find out about books that have been banned through the years by various authorities for various reasons–then read them online! A number of SF titles included, by the way.