This weekend my high school class (Western Christian College, class of 1976) is one of the honored classes at Homecoming–in other words, it’s our 30th reunion. Tonight Homecoming kicked off with an alumni concert. I sang “Me” from Beauty and the Beast and “Old Man River” from Showboat, and then Jim Mann, now an architect …
“How would you help, Your Highness, and why should we trust you to do so?”
Sodic bentonite is a type of clay that swells to many times its dry volume when wet. However, the first sentence of fiction I wrote today was…Karl rolled out of bed and pressed his naked back against the wall.
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Artificial retinas that could restore the vision of millions of people suffering from retinal disorders like age-related macular degeneration could reach the market in just a few years. We may all be bionic before long.
An over-reliance on computer design software is weakening drawing skills among art students–and resulting in uninteresting and uninspired work, according to college art professors.
Mostly the book contained pictures of battles, of vast armored and mounted armies clashing in valleys and mountain passes, in forests or on great open plains.
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A long, long time ago–say, 1990 or so–when I was still at the Saskatchewan Science Centre, the hot technology promising us a near-magical future of levitating trains, cheap power and ultrafast computers was room-temperature superconductors. It’s been a long time coming–a lot longer than some people predicted–but it may be in sight at last.
Winds of Change posts a regular roundup of news about non-fossil-fuel energy sources: the latest one is up.
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Although his leg hurt, and although he had allowed the ancient manservant to help him pull off his borrowed clothes and pull on a borrowed nightshirt, Anton did not go back to bed at once.
