It’s Ig Nobel time again. This year’s winners include the U.S. military for its plans to make a “gay bomb,” research into the use of Viagra to help hamsters recover from jet lag, and a medical study of the risks of sword swallowing. (Via New Scientist.) See my post at Futurismic–and next week’s science column!
Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of the launch of the world’s first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1. Alan Boyle at Cosmic Log has a long post packed with links about the possibilities for the next 50 years in space.
…arrived via FedEx today, along with the page proofs which I must now carefully proofread and get back to DAW by October 26. Woo-hoo! Here’s the full cover: The blurb above the title reads “Can the hidden colony of Marseguro survive rediscovery?” And here’s the back copy: Marseguro, a water world far distant from Earth, …
It’s a floating dwelling, perfect for a water world like Marseguro. And it only costs $2.5 million! (Via Gizmodo.)
This is literally unbelievable: MOSCOW, September 24 (RIA Novosti) – A 15-year-old boy from the Urals suffered acute frostbite after riding the wing of a Boeing-737 plane on a two-hour flight from Perm to Moscow, Russian radio station Mayak reported on Monday. After clinging on for the entire 1300-kilometer (808-mile) flight to Vnukovo Airport, the …
Download the audio version.Get my science column weekly as a podcast. As a kid I was always disappointed when we drove past “Watch for Falling Rock” signs in the mountains and no rocks actually fell. (I had a similar reaction to deerless “Deer Crossing” signs.) Obviously we were just driving in the wrong places, because …
The singularity at the center of our galaxy may be naked…and through its corrupting wanton abandon could “leak lawlessness into the universe, destroying any concept of cause and effect.” Paging Dr. Who…
…turned up at G-Pop: The Wind by Edward Willett brought back memories of another ghostly tale by none other than Edgar Allen Poe, entitled The Tell-Tale Heart. At first you feel some sympathy toward this man who, once happily married and at home in his childhood home, finds himself alone, his wife gone and his …
Here’s this week’s CBC Web column… Audio version here. ***** The weather is perennially fascinating. We check the forecast first thing in the morning. We check the weather in cities we might be visiting on business or vacation. And northerners heading south for a bit of sun pay particular attention to the hurricane forecasts. Once …
Maybe. That’s the focus of today’s post at Futurismic; and thanks to Janet at The Walrus Said for the tip!
…can be seen here.
…from Paperback Swap: “Great story about two empaths from different species who must work together to find common ground and avert interstellar war. Enjoyed the character development (human and alien).” “This book was a very good read for me. The characters were good and well thought out. The author took the homage of walking in …
