…one at a time. Wow.

Would you drink wine from genetically modified grapes? I would. They’re not talking about putting in genes from spider monkeys or some such; just speeding up the kind of genetic development that would otherwise take decades of work, trying to get genes for, say, disease resistance from one kind of grape to another without altering …

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…now at your fingertips. Just what it says. Every word of every play, readily searchable, courtesy of Google Book Search.

More photos here.

…you owe it to yourself to check out this collection of cartoons. These are like old friends to me, because my Dad had a copy of Bill Mauldin’s book Up Front, where these cartoons were collected. It’s great to see them again. Hmmm. I wonder where the book went?

…bit by bit. (An 800-year-old manuscript by a Jewish philosopher, that is.)

The shortlist for the 2006 Sunburst Award for the best Canadian “literature of the fantastic” includes: Cory Doctorow, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (Tor) Holly Phillips, In the Palace of Repose (Prime Books) Robert Charles Wilson, Spin (Tor) James Alan Gardner, Gravity Wells: Speculative Fiction Stories (HarperCollins Canada) Alison McLeod, The Wave Theory …

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Five years ago today was opening night of The Play’s The Thing, the first play I ever directed for Regina Little Theatre. It was also opening day of the long-running hit Margaret Anne and I, collaborators on the project, decided to entitle “Alice Laura Mae Willett.” Happy birthday, sweetheart!

…and NASA has the video.

Everyone knows that young people are much happier than old people. There’s just one problem with this truism. Like many other things that “everyone knows,” it isn’t actually true. That’s the conclusion of a unique study recently carried out by researchers at VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System and the University of Michigan. The researchers conducted …

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Hey, it’s not just my opinion. Stephen Hawking thinks so, too.

…found in Korea?