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Ebola and the apes
The great apes are in serious trouble–and Ebola may be partly to blame.
Write like an Egyptian!
Turn your name (or any other word) into Egyptian hieroglyphics with this handy Hieroglyphics Generator.
Man-made life
For as long as I remember, there have been jokes and pop-culture references to scientists creating life in a test tube–usually with the understanding that such a thing was an impossibility outside of horror movies. But last week scientists in the U.S. announced their intention to create the first completely artificial form of life, a …
This week’s science column…
SCIENCE Edward Willett Glow, little GloFish, glimmer, glimmer… In January, a U.S. company hopes to offer for sale the first pet fish genetically engineered to glow under ultraviolet light. This has alarmed some people, but scientists have been creating glowing organisms for several years now–and their ability to do so has revolutionized many fields of …
Pushing the frontier
I’m bullish on privately funded spaceflight…though it may just be wishful thinking on my part. But darn it, if the government can’t do it, then somebody else has to!
What he said (again)…
Once again, Orson Scott Card says what I wish I’d said regarding the use of intemperate language and the assumption of sordid motives when talking about political opponents.
They like me! They really like me!
My children’s non-fiction book Ebola Virus has been named one of 2003’s Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12 by The National Science Teachers Association & The Children’s Book Council. Yay!
Seven flights of fancy that fizzled
An interesting article on some SF ideas that didn’t quite work out…at least, not yet.
A searchable index of SF inventions
Somebody has a lot of free time–but this site, which lets you search through many of the inventions that SF writers and filmmakers have come up with, is way cool.
Tests of Ebola vaccine start
Looks like my recent children’s book on Ebola, from Enslow Publishers, may need some revision…
Don’t you just hate when this happens?
The discovery of a “mystery particle” calls into question the whole Standard Model. Cool!
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