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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Not much blogging today; I had to get a presentation ready for tomorrow, then drive to Saskatoon for the annual meeting of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan. As I’ve mentioned, I’ve been writing a history of sorts for them, called A Safe and Prosperous Future: 100 years of engineering and geoscience …
All you gotta do is build a better lunar lander.
The view through the control room window in the Access Communications TV studio, just moments before the start of Net.talk, the phone-in show about computers that I host each week. More photos here.
That’s how the opening to Nineteen Eighty-Four read before George Orwell edited it. Clive Davis posts an image of a bit of the manuscript. Good writing depends on good rewriting just as much as good movies depend on good film editing.
