God or Gaia–take your pick–has a sense of humour. A good match for Goose-zilla, which I wrote about here. Hmmm, I see a new book from Erich Von Daniken hitting the shelves soon… “Petting Zoo of the Gods.”
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Major magazine indirectly validates my choice of career
Popular Science enumerates the worst jobs in science–proof that I made the right decision in deciding to write about science (both fact and fiction) rather than pursuing it as a career.
Neanderthal art?
This 30,000-year-old statue might be the work of Neanderthals…an interesting notion to me, since I’ve just spent many hours in the company of modern Neanderthals as envisioned by Robert J. Sawyer.
A pioneer in the field of fabulation…
Incredibly, the remarkable life of Emily Chesley — author, aviatrix and 92-year-old pole vaulter — has been overlooked by historians and literary researchers alike…until now. I am honored to be, for the second year in a row, one of the judges for the prestigious Dr. Maximilian Tundra Memorial Poetry and Short Speculative Fiction Contest. (Note …
China Will Launch Yuhangyuan In October
I suppose it’s too much to hope that this will energize the U.S. space program the way Sputnik did? *Sigh.* Yes, I suppose it is. Better brush up on Chinese if I want to retire on the moon, as the teenaged me fully expected to be able to do by the time I turned 65 …
This week’s science column
For more than a decade now I’ve been writing a science column for the Regina Leader Post (and other places). Pretty much every column is now online, and I post each new column as it’s written. This week’s is now up; it’s on The Dinosaur Demise Debate. There’s a subscription form at the top of …
The dinosaur demise debate
“Everybody knows” that the dinosaurs were killed off 65 million years ago by a giant meteor that slammed into the Yucatan Peninsula. But as is often the case in science, what “everybody knows” may be wrong. The asteroid impact theory has been dominant for 20 years, but there have always been doubters. They admit a …
Barbarians at the gate!
“‘He is a man who writes what used to be called penny dreadfuls’…That they could believe that there is any literary value there or any aesthetic accomplishment or signs of an inventive human intelligence is simply a testimony to their own idiocy.’” Harold Bloom, self-appointed arbiter of what does and does not have literary value, …
Reading report
Well, I finished both Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling and Hybrids by Robert J. Sawyer over the weekend. Briefly: My wife and I disagree over the latest Harry Potter book. Although we both enjoyed it, I thought it was one of the strongest of the set, while she …
Generic Science Fiction Convention
Now this is funny–unless you’re a con virgin, in which case, it won’t mean a thing.
New Technique Could Lead To Widespread Use Of Solar Power
“Gentlemen, we can reduce the use of fossil fuels. We have the technology.”
Greenhouse hurricane?
Does this remind anyone else of Bruce Sterling’s novel Heavy Weather?
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