Voyager 1 may have reached an important boundary in space.
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Earworms
My Web site should be up Wednesday sometime. In the meantime, here’s this week’s science column, which I normally would have online by now. Interested in receiving my science column every week? Visit my Web site, once it’s back up, and you’ll see a form to subscribe on every column page. ******* SCIENCE By Edward …
Maybe I should get my old job back…
The Saskatchewan Science Centre (for which I used to be communications officer and for which I can still honestly say I wrote almost all of the exhibit copy–I still do most of their new exhibit copy on a freelance basis) and the Da Vinci Project have announced a major partnership. If I got my old …
Back to the moon?
Maybe…just maybe. President Bush could be making an announcement refocusing NASA’s efforts on a return to the moon–and eventually, a journey to Mars–in an upcoming speech. Early days yet, but this sounds hopeful!
My Web site is temporarily down
If you’ve been looking for edwardwillett.com, you won’t find it–I’m changing hosts and at the moment the site has fallen through the cracks. I hope it’ll be back up within a day, though.
Not much to say, except…
This is cool! Who knew we could each serve as our own ethernet cable?
This is a little scary…
Bio-engineered superbug stirs debate. Hoo-boy…
Hal Clement dies
Hal Clement died in his sleep last night. His very first novel, Needle, was serialized in Astounding 10 years before I was born, but I still remember reading and re-reading it as a kid. It was one of those works, along with Have Space Suit, Will Travel and other Heinlein “juveniles” that cemented my love …
The Gender Genie
The Gender Genie analyzes text and tells you whether it thinks the author was male or female. It got it right with three different things of mine I entered.
The Perfect (Solar) Storm
I’d never heard of this before. Cool!
Reading report
I gave a reading at the Weyburn Public Library last Thursday night. This is notable because, although I grew up in Weyburn and am a former editor of the Weyburn Review, I’ve rarely read in the city–only a couple of times at schools, and never (until last week) at the library. It was an interesting …
The Ig Nobel Prizes of 2003
May I have the envelope please…it’s time to once again inform my faithful readers of the results of the Ig Nobel Prizes, given annually by the science humour magazine Annals of Improbable Research to those who have done something that first makes people laugh, then makes them think. This year’s winners received a solid gold …
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