…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.
Photo of the Day: Things You See At A Science Fiction Convention III
Randy Packer (left) and Devon Boorman of Academie Duello, the highly respected swordfighting school here in Vancouver, give a demonstration of fighting with rapiers (and a shield, and a dagger, in this particular photo) this morning at VCon 31. It was a fascinating presentation and left me with one indelible impression: any duel between men …
The first sentence I wrote today…
Emily swam through the tunnel as fast as she could, hoping she hadn’t misjudged how close the drone was and the range of its weapon…and also hoping its artificial intelligence wasn’t smart enough to realize just how rotten the rock was in Sawyer’s Point, because all it would take was one discharge to bring the …
Photo of the Day: Richmond at Night
More photos here. Here’s the view from the 13th floor suite SF Canada had its party in tonight at VCon. Another good day. As you’ll see below, I managed almost 2,500 words of fiction today, not bad considering I also participated in a (very intimate) panel discussion of playwriting (panelists agree: it’s not the same …
Pioneering Weyburn LSD research getting a second look
As I’ve mentioned before, my old home town of Weyburn, Saskatchewan, home to the Saskatchewan Mental Hospital, was also a place where, in the 1950s and early 1960s, groundbreaking work on the use of LSD for medical purposes took place. (Weyburn is also the town where the word “psychedelic” was coined.) One of the reseasrch …
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