…of popular search words that bring people to my main website. Here are the top 15 search terms (if I remember, I’ll make this a Friday feature from now on, just to put it on some kind of schedule): 34 spider goat 0.9% 31 animal intelligence 0.8% 23 hygiene hypothesis 0.6% 22 time perception 0.6% …
REsearchers have developed a single-molecule transistor, called the Quantum Interference Effect Transistor. I love this quote: “With our transistors packed at maximum density, you could put a microprocessor as powerful as the top-of-the-line workstation on the back of an E. coli.”
…as I prepare to travel to Vancouver for the science fiction convention VCon: A common cold can be just a fingertip away thanks to the high rate of viral contamination of environmental surfaces that a cold sufferer can leave behind, according to a study in hotel rooms… During daily activities, adults infected with the cold …
From the Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild e-bulletin: We are very sad to announce that Isabelle Eaglesham passed away on September 23. Isabelle belonged to the Saskatchewan Writers Guild from its inception. A founding member of the Weyburn Writers Group, she and another local member, the late Kay Flury, travelled to the founding meeting of the SWG. …
“But I don’t understand,” Dahlia said, for the first time sounding like she actually believed the tale John had told them. Current word count: 35,429New words this session: 1,372Percentage of novel completed: 35.4 Talky stuff yesterday; action and a modicum of gore today.
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“Lights!” Dahlia yelled, as Emily, too terrified to even scream, scrambled out of bed and pressed her back against the wall at its head, as far away from the supine stranger as she could get. Current word count: 34,057New words this session: 2,138Percentage of novel completed: 34.0 And so we pass the one-third mark…yay!
This sounds important–and like a really good idea: A research team led by scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard announced today the development of a new kind of genetic “roadmap” that can connect human diseases with potential drugs to treat them, as well as predict how new drugs work in human cells….The …
It’s the Geek-a-Cycle–a stationary bike you pedal while you use the computer. It’s sad, but this could actually make sense for me… (Via Gizmodo.)
Gershwin, that is. The 107th anniversary of George Gershwin’s birth was Tuesday. Power Line has a celebration. I’ll be celebrating Gershwin’s music myself this weekend. I’m part of Livingston Square, a Regina quartet (the other singers are Evan Purchase, Dianne Burrows and Carolyn Speirs; Alison Purdy is our accompanist), and this Sunday, October 1, we’re …
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Holly Phillips (that’s her in the foreground at left, at the World Science Fiction Convention in Toronto in 2003) has won the 2006 Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic for her collection of short stories In the Palace of Repose (Prime Books). The Sunburst Award is a prized and juried award that is …
