…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 …
More photos here.
…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 …
…I read something like this. There are no Utopias, online or off.
…whom I’ve never met, although I was there when he won his Hugo Award at the World Science Fiction Convention in San Jose with the most direct and to-the-point Hugo Acceptance speech in history (“F**k, I won a Hugo!”): Penn Jillette.
…with writing a note on the furniture to mark the spot where I finished writing my new SF book?
…albeit it in slightly embarrassing fashion: “Mayhem at Harding: Dancing Breaks Out.” Oh, and there’s video.
