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, …
…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 …
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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 …
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 …
“Ancient Pregnant Reptile Fossil Discovered Under Pingpong Table.”
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.)
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 …
There were no more incididents between the ruined laboratory and the dock, however; in fact, they didn’t see anyone living at all. Current word count: 28,172New words this session: 649Percentage of novel completed: 28.1 I only managed to scrounge half an hour of fiction-writing time today, hence the low verbiage. But half an hour is …
Nope. New research is rewriting our understanding of how skin tans, and may point the way to methods to protect fair-skinned people from melanoma.
…are now online, courtesy of The Royal Society: “Nearly three and a half centuries of scientific study and achievement is now available online in the Royal Society Journals Digital Archive following its official launch this week. This is the longest-running and arguably most influential journal archive in Science, including all the back articles of both …
The mysterious (alien?) red rain of Kerala: an update.
