Just to prove there’s a website devoted to everything, here’s a cool one with detailed information, images, and even sound files of more than a century’s worth of electronic musical instruments, from 1870 to 1990. “The Musical Telegraph.” Who knew?

A Montreal 16-year-old has demonstrated that you can generate quite a bit of electrical power by spinning magnetic bacteria. It could point the way to a new and very green source of electricity for low-power applications.

…before overcrowded cities, food coloring, air pollution and video games turned us all violent.

The Saskatchewan Legislative Building on an absolutely gorgeous spring day. More photos here.

…and I still don’t really understand it. But apparently, light, which has previously been brought essentially to a stop in experiments, has now been given negative speed, so that the peak of a pulse of light emerges from an optical fiber in the reverse direction before the peak of the pulse has even entered the …

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I honestly had no idea until just now that one (well, not this one) can now buy a luxury submarine capable of a transatlantic crossing. (Via Gizmodo.) So where are the luxury airship yachts? Surely they can’t be far behind…

Yesterday I took a flying trip to Saskatoon for a media event promoting the Celebration of Rural History and Culture in Mossbank I’ll be a part of on June 17. Among the many events that day are several historical re-enactments–including the historic debate between T.C. Douglas and Ross Thatcher in 1955, after the latter defected …

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As the joke goes, “of course we can cure your cancer–provided you’re a mouse.” But the first component of this therapy is moving into human trials.

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Here’s the cover art for my children’s biography of Orson Scott Card, Orson Scott Card: Architect of Alternate Worlds, which has just appeared on Amazon.com–it must have just been posted because I checked the entry just a day or two ago and it wasn’t there then. This probably means my author’s copies will be showing …

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…can be found here. Of particular interest, of course, is the section headed “What Do These Results Mean For Human Cancer Therapy?”. Here’s some of it: First, we should point out that in this mouse system the donor and recipient mice were both in the same in-bred laboratory strains of mice. Thus, except for the …

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