The view out my window at the Executive Airport Plaza Hotel in Richmond, B.C., this afternoon as I worked on my Janis Joplin biography. It was actually quite interesting, in a Mighty Machines sort of way. More photos here.
Creepy
You know that chilling scene in Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol where Scrooge is forced to confront his own tombstone by the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come? Now I know a little bit how Scrooge feels. This is in Precious Blood Cemetery, South Hadley, Massachusetts, and I found it on this website. Fortunately my …
The first sentence I wrote today…
If this is war, how come only one side is shooting? Current word count: 50,893New words this session: 3,035Percentage of novel completed: 50.8 A particularly prolific day of 3,035 new words of fiction (at both Second Cup and the Foggy Dew, thanks for asking) puts me over the halfway mark to my 100,000-word goal! Yay! …
Band-aid solutions
Humans, as you may have noticed, are covered with skin. This tissue, the largest organ of the body, is both waterproof and amazingly tough, but it isn’t impervious (unless you hail from the planet Krypton). Sharp objects can and do cut through it. Cutting through the skin invariably involves cutting blood vessels, which leads to …
Teen fights alien invasion…
…using only his imagination. OK, technically he played Space Invaders using just brain waves to control the game, which is plenty cool enough, but I still like my version.
Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s…
…a giant power-generating kite! Seriously, a very cool and promising idea. I hope it flies. (Sorry.)
Photo of the Day: Cathedral of Commerce
More photos here. This is Richmond Centre, the big shopping mall just up the street from the hotel I’m in here in Richmond, B.C. Yeah, it’s just a shopping centre, but I thought this was a nice sunny space. (Might be a bit depressing in the rain, though.) The Second Cup where I’ve been doing …
Paging Dr. McCoy
In yet another sign we really do live in a world that we would have thought science fictional not so long ago, researchers at MIT have developed a simple biodegradable liquid that can stop bleeding in seconds. Among other things, this could cut (you’ll pardon the expression) surgery times in half. Also, if it pans …
The first sentence I wrote today…
She headed off in an entirely different direction, and shortly thereafter faded from the display altogether as she moved out of sonar range. Current word count: 47,858New words this session: 2,707Percentage of novel completed: 47.8 The halfway point nears… A mixture of Second Cup and Foggy Dew writing today, interspersed with several hours of working …
A drug treatment to reverse heart-attack damage?
More tests remain to be done, but quite possibly. Excellent and encouraging medical news, if it pans out.
Human-animal chimeric embryos:
Not just for horror movies any more.
Suspended animation…
…via sewer gas. Well, in mice.
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