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… is in the news again, though not yet on your plate. Me, I wouldn’t have a problem with it. As long it’s not called “Soylent Green”…

Half an hour later, dressed–shaved, even (though the downy hairs on his chin hardly deserved to be glorified as “stubble”)–Anton found himself sitting down to breakfast in a flower-bedecked, glass-walled nook brilliantly lit by both the sun overhead and its reflection on the thick layer of fresh snow covering the garden outside.

European scientists have developed a working interface between neurons (brain cells) and silicon chips. The ultimate applications are potentially limitless. In the long term it will possibly enable the creation of very sophisticated neural prostheses to combat neurological disorders. What’s more, it could allow the creation of organic computers that use living neurons as their …

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Using a superconductive gyroscope, scientists have created gravity in the lab. There’s mention that “this effect could form the basis for a new technological domain, which would have numerous applications in space and other high-tech sectors,” but no more detail on possible applications than that. Being the SF guy I am, though I have to …

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What have I been doing all weekend? Mostly directing Rope, Patrick Hamilton’s classic 1929 thriller (best-known today in its Alfred Hitchock movie version) for Regina Little Theatre. That’s Mark Claxton as Rupert Cadell on the left and Josh Strait as Wyndham Brandon on the right. Rope opens Wednesday and runs through Saturday at the Regina …

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Amazing Stories, first published in 1926 and in the last few years oft pronounced dead and just as oft revived, may be dead for good.

SpaceX’s Falcon 1 rocket was lost just after launch today. Drat.

…now it’s the Robolobster!

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Karl blinked. Hey, they can’t all be winners.

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