Here’s Robert J. Sawyer, our instructor at the Writing With Style workshop here at the Banff Centre, giving a reading last night.

I may have linked to this before, but really, it’s impossible to visit too often The ORIGINAL Illustrated Catalog Of ACME Products. (Via About Last Night.)

Using gene therapy, researchers have been able to reverse memory loss in mice genetically engineered to develop Alzheimer’s Disease. “Within a month of treatment, mice that had already suffered memory deficits could learn and remember how to find their way through a water maze,” says co-author Robert Marr, a post-doctoral researcher in Verma’s lab. “It …

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The “Castle in the Rockies,” a.k.a. the Banff Springs Hotel. We’ll be attending the International Wine and Food Festival there in a few weeks.

Here’s the proof I made it to the top of Tunnel Mountain today.

This is the view from near the top of Tunnel Mountain, looking down on the Banff Springs Hotel golf course. That’s Mount Rundle rising on the right.

This is cool: an Italian computer programmer discovered the remains of an ancient Roman villa–not by stumbling over the ruins during a hike, or anything mundane like that, but by browsing Google Earth images.

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, stronomers have confirmed that the dark mass at the centre of the Andromeda galaxy is a massive black hole–but they can’t explain why it has a disk of blue stars orbiting it. As Billy Shakespeare wrote, “There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your …

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If a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, how many birds in the hand are fifteen or so birds in the bush worth? Anyone?

Here’s a classic Banff view: these are the mountains you see at the head of the Bow River valley when you’re standing on the viewing deck at the famous Banff Springs Hotel.

Keep your eyes open in Banff, and you’ll find beautiful pictures in unexpected places.

The view out my window when I got up this morning.