If you want to know who won what when in the field of science fiction literature, then the Locus Index to Science Fiction Awards, newly updated, is the place to go. And if you’re interested in SF and don’t visit Locus Online regularly, you’re missing out. In fact, if you’re really interested in SF, especially …
…when you could have a boat like this? Another cool surface vessel I shoulda put in my new ocean-world SF story.
Joan Miller and I ask the musical question “How Can Love Survive?” during the final run-through for Regina Lyric Light Opera‘s musical fundraising brunch, With a Song in My Heart…the Music of Richard Rodgers, at the Hotel Saskatchewan Radisson Plaza Sunday morning. In the program I also perform two solos: “Some Enchanted Evening” and (ahem) …
The surface of our planet is nice and cool. (A little too cool, this time of year.) But not all that far beneath us, it’s anything but. In fact, says Chris Marone, Penn State professor of geosciences, enough heat emanates from the interior of the planet to make 200 cups of hot coffee per hour …
…has been developed. An Air Force contractor has developed the first high-speed camera that can follow speeding bullets midflight. It may lead to “active armor” that intercepts speeding rounds out of the air, or personal-protection devices that deflect incoming bullets with rapidly inflating Kevlar air bags.Developed for the Air Force’s Munitions Directorate by Nova Sensors …
Scientists have identified 182 species of bacteria that regularly live on our skin, and estimate the total number of species of bacteria on our skin numbers around 250. No need to go “yuck,” though: “Without good bacteria, the body could not survive,” added Dr. Zhan Gao, a scientist in Blaser’s lab involved in the study. …
…but obviously I should: Video games that contain high levels of action, such as Unreal Tournament, can actually improve your vision. Researchers at the University of Rochester have shown that people who played action video games for a few hours a day over the course of a month improved by about 20 percent in their …
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…but I still thought this “I hate Macs” rant from the Guardian was very funny. (Be sure to read the tag. And the first comment.)
Usually I post a list of the top search terms bringing people to edwardwillett.com. This week I thought I’d post some of the strangest search terms bringing people to edwardwillett.com. You sometimes have to wonder what the searchers were really looking for. I’ve left the original search linked to the term. “most famous cows” – …
But not, alas, any kind of ocean planets that could be the planet I conjured up for Marseguro (if that ends up being its title), my new SF novel I’m still anxiously awaiting editorial reaction to. Still, this is a pretty cool concept and would make a great setting for some kind of SF story: …
“The smell of the sea” sounds romantic in books, but being a prairie landlubber, I always kind of thought that the sea, um…not to put too fine a point on it…is rather stinky. At least at first whiff. Meet the culprit: dimethyl sulphide. “On bracing childhood visits to the seaside we were always told to …
