Today’s Web column for CBC’s Afternoon Edition… *** Over the past few years the growing use of computers and the Internet has contributed a lot of weird new words to our language. People talk about ROM and RAM and “megs of memory,” Googling and websurfing and more. But one of the weirdest words of all …
Sarah’s eyes widened.Words today: 1,892Total words: 47,421Percentage complete: 39.5Under 2,000 today. More tomorrow! (By the way, the “percentage complete” up there is based on 120,000 words. The contract only specifies 100,000, so technically I’m 47.4 percent complete. But Marseguro also started at 100,000 and ended up at 120,000 after rewrites, and anyway it’s more interesting …
I haven’t posted as many science items here as usual in part because I’m very busy, but also in part because I try to post something every day over at Futurismic. Here are some recent posts of mine over there you might want to check out: The debate over “Active SETI” Building blocks of life …
This sounds promising: Reversal Of Alzheimer’s Symptoms Within Minutes In Human Study An extraordinary new scientific study, which for the first time documents marked improvement in Alzheimer’s disease within minutes of administration of a therapeutic molecule, has just been published in the Journal of Neuroinflammation.I wrote a book on Alzheimer’s a few years ago.
For a moment, just for a moment, Richard felt the pull of his old way of thinking, the way of thinking that said that God Itself was all around him, pushing, guiding, forcing, threatening, and protecting, that the only way to survive was to seek the will of God and do it to the best …
Forty-five minutes passed in the evacuated corridor aboard the once–and future, Andy King hoped–MSS Victor Hansen with nothing much happening.Words today: 4,455Total words: 42,201Percentage completed: 35.2 A good day today, but it had to be to even partially make up for getting nothing written Saturday or Sunday!
I’ve just posted the first two chapters of my upcoming science fiction novel Marseguro over at edwardwillett.com. Enjoy! And, then, of course, I hope you’ll order the book.
We’ve all had the importance of tooth-brushing drilled (sorry) into us from an early age, and it’s not hard to understand why: humans have been plagued by tooth decay for as long as we’ve been human, and had teeth. Cro-Magnon skulls 25,000 years old show evidence of tooth decay, for instance, and as long ago …
I’d almost forgotten about this one, but if Amazon’s publication date is right, this will actually be my next non-fiction book to appear, before the Janis Joplin biography. It’s Speed, for educational publisher Rosen, part of their charmingly titled series “Incredibly Disgusting Drugs.”
…there’s a new formation for you to sink your conspiritorially minded teeth into: a “doorway” in an unusually shaped mountain on the Red Planet. (That’s it at left.) (Via Futurismic.)
…there’s a new formation for you to sink your conspiritorially minded teeth into: a “doorway” in an unusually shaped mountain on the Red Planet. (That’s it at left.) (Via Futurismic.)
“11 Rescued 3 months after Russian shipwreck”
