“Don’t go anywhere,” the guard growled, then coughed and kept on coughing, so hard he ended up leaning against the doorjamb for support, holding his rifle loosely in his right hand, coughing into his clenched left fist. Current word count: 61,572New words this session: 844Percentage of novel completed: 61.5

The morning view out one of the windows in my new office, looking a bit north of east. More photos here.

…has supplanted “spider goats” as the top search term bringing people to my main web site. Here are the top 15 search terms from the past 4,000 visits: 37 physics of football36 time perception26 spider goat20 hygiene hypothesis19 how to paint cars19 golf technology19 animal intelligence16 rogue waves14 science of soccer13 plant communication13 animal emotions12 …

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…when you’ve got radiation?

My new workspace, after the big move. Doesn’t look too bad, does it? You should see the part of the room that’s out of frame, though… More photos here.

Escorted by a walking dead man, Chris let himself be led into Government House. Current word count: 60,728New words this session: 1,423Percentage of novel completed: 60.7

Chris Keating edged around the walls of the guardroom as he fled the prison, trying to avoid the blood that covered, it seemed, everything, and trying not to look at the ruined bodies of the Holy Warriors who had been guarding him. Current word count: 59,305New words this session: 1,492Percentage of novel completed: 59.3

U.S. researchers have developed the world’s first working invisibility cloak–although at the moment, it only works at a single specific frequency, and in the microwave range of the spectrum, not the visible range. But it’s a start…

The first time we took our daughter Alice outside as an infant, she looked distinctly worried. “What the heck is this giant bright windy place?” she seemed to thinking. “Life is just one darn thing after another.” But how, at her age, had she learned what a “worried face” looks like? Charles Darwin argued in …

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