I turned in the manuscript for Historic Walks of Regina and Moose Jaw to Red Deer Press last night. Whee! Of course, I still have several hundred photographs to take, apparently in the middle of a cold snap, but at least it will be a change from sitting on my…chair. Now maybe I can make …
Elvis lives! Well, kind of. Way back in 1991 I wrote a column on taxonomy–which is not, as you might suppose, the scientific study of taxes. (And yes, I used that same joke 16 years ago.) It’s just barely possible you don’t remember that original column, so first, a quick taxonomy refresher. Taxonomy is the …
Still too busy to blog much, but here’s an interesting article on applause. Who invented it…and why? (To which the answers appear to be “Nobody knows” and “Because,” but it’s still an interesting article.)
Frantically trying to finish off Historic Walks of Regina and Moose Jaw. Not much blogging today. Maybe not much the whole week…
This NASA story, about how the Moon bears witness to the early history of the solar system, and could tell us whether “extinction events” caused by heavy bombardments from outer space really recur every 26 million years on Earth as some have hypothesized, is headlined “The Moon is a harsh witness.” Somebody there has read …
Next stop, the Terminator? Singapore is launching a contest to build “urban warrior robots.”
The possibility has suddenly become far more likely. If…if…it pans out, a round trip to Mars just become both much more appealing and much easier. And the likelihood of life on the fourth planet much greater. (As an aside, note that the Mars atmosphere expert quoted at the end of the story is named David …
“Biomimetic Technologies Project Will Create First Soft-Bodied Robots .”
The reading went fine, but the best part of the evening was on my way out of the lobby. I stopped at the front desk to ask the young woman there if she would call me a cab. Which she did. I was carrying Lost in Translation, of course, and she noticed it and said, …
So here I am in Saskatoon, blogging to you live from the Radisson. The bus ride up was uneventful, if foggy in spots (see the previous post with a shot I rather hastily took out the bus window as we pulled into Davidson). I arrived a good 45 minutes before I needed to be at …
More photos here.
“Genetically modified chickens lay drugs in eggs.”
