…finally hit the market. For a cool $3,950 (U.S.) each.
Photo of the Day That Was Actually Taken Yesterday: A Touch of Fall
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The first (rather long and convoluted) sentence I wrote today was…
The journey to the deep-sea camping shelter passed uneventfully for Emily and Dahlia, as most sub journeys did, since Marcasero, so far as anyone had yet determined, was entirely free of “sea monsters” (or any underwater lifeform larger than, say, an old-Earth grouper) and even the most violent surface storm couldn’t roil the water to …
The cobalt bomb
To most people, “cobalt bomb” sounds like some super-powerful weapon of mass destruction. Tell them the first cobalt bomb was built and tested right here in Saskatchewan, and they’ll wonder what kind of crazed conspiracy theorist you are. But the first cobalt bomb was indeed built and first tested here, 55 years ago–and far from …
Glenn Gould plays again
I wrote a science column last year about Zenph Studios new technology for bringing old recordings to new life by converting them into new performances on computer-driven pianos. Last night, more than 200 people turned out to hear the technology put to work at CBC’s Glenn Gould Studio, where a black Yamaha piano, sans player, …
A review of the Sony Reader…
…is up at Gizmodo. It looks great, and it uses electronic paper technology, and a couple of years ago I’d have been gung-ho to have one…but you know what? I’ve discovered I’m perfectly happy reading ebooks on my Audiovox Harrier PDA/cellphone. So I’ll wait. (Also, the Sony Reader is going to cost $350 U.S., which …
Return of the Photo of the Day: Frog
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The first sentence I wrote today…
That brought a collective gasp from the assembled Selkies, and even though Chris wasn’t in his line of sight, Richard felt the boy cringe. Current word count: 30,492New words this session: 2,320Percentage of novel completed: 30.4 Much more productive today, partly, I think, because today’s session included a couple of action scenes, and those really …
Words of wisdom concerning bloggers-turned-book-authors:
Successful-author-and-blogger John Scalzi hits the nail on the head in explaining why publishers are nuts to hand huge advances for books to bloggers on the basis of their having a successful blog: “Being a blogger is a bit like being that lady in the supermarket who hands out free samples. You see her, you stop …
Here’s a headline you don’t see every day:
“Ancient Pregnant Reptile Fossil Discovered Under Pingpong Table.”
An effective treatment to halt Alzheimer’s in the early stages?
Possibly. Drugs that stimulate a receptor in the brain that controls insulin responses look very promising…and one of them has already been approved for human use in the treatment of Type-2 diabetes. (Via FuturePundit.)
A tabletop high-energy particle accelerator?
Not quite. But scientists a the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, along with researchers at Oxford, have used a process called laser wakefield acceleration to accelerate electron beams to energies exceeding a billion electron volts (1GeV) in just 3.3 centimeters. They think they could make a 10GeV accelerator that’s only a metre …
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