Come this Sunday, some 50,000 people will be sitting in the stands at Taylor Field for the Grey Cup, their minds focused on one thing–how much they’d love a cup of hot cocoa. They needn’t worry about indulging, in light of new research that shows that cocoa has an even higher concentration of antioxidants than …
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Not a Very Bright Idea
Jeremy Stangroom has some cogent thoughts on the proposal that secularists start calling themselves “brights.”
SF Canada site updated
I’ve completed the latest update to the SF Canada site. This time around, we feature an article from J. Brian Clarke “On Androids, Cloning and the Afterlife,” my short story “Je Me Souviens,” and, of course, the latest news from SF Canada members. Also be sure to check out the New Books page for the …
Website is back!
My Web site is finally back up on its new server. Stop by!
Where no one has gone before…
Voyager 1 may have reached an important boundary in space.
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 …
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