The Apostrophe Protection Society. (Via Books, Words, And Writing.)
Photo of the Day: Sunflower Sunburst
More photos here.
Oil from plankton?
Fabulous news, if it works. (Via Transterrestrial Musings.)
A tour of the Bigelow spaceship factory…
…over at Alan Boyle’s (highly recommended) Cosmic Log.
Photo of the Day: July 20, 1964, Lubbock, Texas
Someone turns five years old…but apparently isn’t very happy about it. (Hint: it’s not Petrarch.)
Separated at birth…by 655 years
Amy Nelson-Mile notes at Books, Words, And Writing that Petrarch was born on this day. By amazing coincidence, just 655 years later, so was I.
Photo of the Day: Full Frontal Clown
More photos here.
Bigelow helps out NASA
I didn’t mention this in my column about Bigelow Aerospace’s Genesis-1, but it’s worth noting that one of the things aboard it is a shoebox-sized laboratory designed by NASA called Genebox, which on this and future Bigelow missions will test “how the near weightlessness of space affects genes in microscopic cells and other small life …
Photo of the Day: Profile of a Clown
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OK, so I’m 17 years behind the times…
Robert J. Sawyer quotes the news I posted at the head of the version of my science column emailed free to whomever wants it (you can subscribe here!) about my recent novel sale to DAW Books. Which I really appreciate, but reading his introduction, in which he wrote “Ed has twice been my writing student …
Testing for telepathy…
…via virtual reality.
Bigelow’s bouncing baby space blimp
Robert Bigelow has a lot of money. In fact, he’s a billionaire (among other things, he owns the Budget Suites of America hotel chain). Not surprisingly, he’s a big proponent of capitalism. And he also firmly believes that since capitalism works so well on Earth, it should work just as well in outer space How …
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