…(if you live in Saskatoon, that is)…me! Looks like I’ll be part of the cast for Beauty and the Beast at Persephone Theatre in Saskatoon in December. Should be fun, and it’s also exciting because this will be the show that launches the brand-new downtown theatre: I gather our first preview will also be the …
I’ve received my author’s copy of Dark Wisdom: The Magazine of Dark Fiction with my short ghost story “The Wind” in it, back to back (as it happens) with a story by my fellow SF Canada member Douglas Smith. Other authors with short stories in this issue include Alan Dean Foster, John Shirley, Robert Dunbar, …
It comes down to both nature and nurture, says Carol Pinchefsky in Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show: Paul Allen, a reader of science fiction and a practicing clinical psychotherapist for 22 years, says my temperament predisposes me to a love of science fiction. Each of us has a temperament, that is, a part of …
“Fun old fashioned sf. I didn’t like the main characters, but it’s flippantly cheesy.” – Goblin Wintercearig. Hey, I want “Flippantly cheesy!” emblazoned on my next book. I think it’s my favorite review quote thus far.
…thanks to work by “noted time-travel theorist” Professor Amos Ori: Ori’s theory is actually a set of mathematical equations describing hypothetical conditions that, if established, could lead to the formation of a time machine, technically known as “closed time-like curves.”Alas, his theories don’t allow us to go back and visit, say, the Battle of Waterloo: …
Download the audio version of this column. Get my science column weekly as a podcast. **** Summer is the season for outdoor music festivals. Here in Regina, for example, the Folk Festival will fill Victoria Park with music this weekend. But as you sit on the grass at your favorite festival listening to your favorite …
…this would be bad news: An 8-million-year-old bacterium that was extracted from the oldest known ice on Earth is now growing in a laboratory, claim researchers. If confirmed, this means ancient bacteria and viruses will come back to life as ice melts due to global warming. This is nothing to worry about, say experts, because …
Orson Scott Card writes an extended rant about sports that echoes many thoughts of my own, as a non-athletic kid. I particularly liked these lines: There is no excuse for athletes being more respected and honored in school than scholars. But few indeed are the high schools that provide scholars and musicians and actors and …
And, no, they’re not members of Canada’s old Natural Law Party (the one that advocated research into something called “yogic flying”). They say they can reverse the Casimir force: The Casimir force is a consequence of quantum mechanics, the theory that describes the world of atoms and subatomic particles that is not only the most …
Well, sort of. Actually, it’s their words that are heading to Mars, as part of a DVD compiled by The Planetary Society and launched with the Phoenix lander, due to touch down next May.
Humans have been dealing with fevers for millennia. Now scientists have, for the first time, identified the precise location in the brain that generates fever in the body: During periods of inflammation, such as when the body is fighting an infection or illness, the body produces hormones known as cytokines. The cytokines, in turn, act …
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