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.
Richard had surprised himself with his intense interest in exactly why Chris Keating had betrayed his planet, and as he looked at the ruins of the laboratory where Keating had worked, it crossed his mind that maybe he wanted to understand Keating’s betrayal in order to shed light on his own. Current word count: 27,523New …
A new study has found that “moderate red wine consumption in a form of Cabernet Sauvignon may help reduce the incidence of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD).”
Robert Bigelow plans to put up the first private space station (or space hotel, if you like), big enough for three people, in late 2009 or early 2010, reports Rand Simberg.
“Why did you do it?” Hansen suddenly asked him as they walked down a rubble-strewn street toward what was left of the laboratory where Chris had worked. Current word count: 26,095New words this session: 927Percentage of novel completed: 26.1 A smallish helping of new words today, and none at all yesterday…I need to pull up …
At least, according to the accidental discovery that stimulating a part of the brain called the left temporoparietal junction caused a young woman to believe a strange, shadowy young man was standing just behind her…when there was really no one there at all. Or was there? says the science-fiction/fantasy writer part of my brain, which, …
…and so we can expect to see them on the battlefield soon. This batch is entirely remotely controlled by a soldier. In another 10 years, though…maybe not. (*Geeky Arrogant Worms reference.)
…says a new study, which I blog about mainly because on the very day this study was published, my daughter, age 5, started piano lessons. Am I a hip, with-it Daddy-o or what, man?
People eat a lot of chicken (which is surprising, considering, as Ogden Nash once pointed out in a poem, chicken tastes just like rattlesnake). According to the latest available figures, total domestic consumption in Canada 2003 was 964,576,000 kg, or 30.5 kg per capita. In the U.S., per capita consumption was 43 kg in 2003, …
