If you own a home, and that home has grass out in front of (or behind) it, then summer is lawn-mowing time. Lawns as we know them date back to the 1700s, when British estates began to feature lawns that flowed away from the house into the surrounding woods. The custom carried over to North …
Indiana State University will soon have the most realistic virtual-reality room in the world, featuring 100 million pixels that display on all six surfaces–walls, ceiling and floor.
I made my biweekly appearance as a science columnist on CBC Radio One’s Afternoon Edition today. I walk under this giant artwork in Regina’s CBC Broadcast Centre to get to the studio. Created for the 1998 National Aboriginal Awards broadcast, this reproduction of a mask by Victoria artist Phil Ashbee is made of styrofoam on …
Sounds about right. (He should try Saskatchewan.) But that just makes it ideal for testing a new Mars suit prototype, developed for a paltry $100,000 in that great state just to the south of us.
Here’s something quite amazing…and here’s hoping it leads to a therapy that’s just as effective in humans! As the headline says, “White Blood Cells from Cancer-Resistant Mice Cure Cancers in Ordinary Mice:” White blood cells from a strain of cancer-resistant mice cured advanced cancers in ordinary laboratory mice, researchers at Wake Forest University School of …
If you own a home, and that home has grass out in front of (or behind) it, then summer is lawn-mowing time. Possibly you enjoy mowing grass. I don’t. Which is why I may be more excited than you are about new developments in the struggle against long grass that engineers and scientists have been …
Researchers are trying to genetically modify plants so that they change colour in the presence of land mines. Should they succeed, dogs like the one in the photo that accompanies the AP story should be most grateful. Well, as should the guy holding the dog’s leash.
The 2005 Nebula Awards for best science fiction and fantasy of the year, nominated for and voted on by active members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America were presented over the weekend. The winners are: Best Novel – Camouflage by Joe HaldemanBest Novella – “Magic for Beginners,” by Kelly LinkBest Novelette – …
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Anne Althouse, in the process of explaining how you can tell she is not a libertarian, makes this comment: There are many problems that, for me, provoke only this thought: If it were my job to solve this problem, I would work on it, and, in this process working on it, anything I have to …
Well, looky here! The paperback version of Lost in Translation is already showing up on Amazon, with a release date of October 3, 2006…just in time for my appearance at VCon 31 in Vancouver. Cool!
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