Everywhere you go in Banff right now you see these gorgeous combinations of blues, greens and golds.

The Nanotech Dermal Display, “a population of about three billion display pixel robots…permanently implanted a fraction of a mm under the surface of the skin…on the back of the hand. Photons emitted by these pixel bots would produce an image on the surface of the skin.” What would be displayed? Medical information from all of …

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Today it’s been snowing off and on here in Banff. During an extended “off” period a group of us walked downtown, and from the bridge over the Bow River I captured this dramatic photo of cloud-shrouded peaks.

Each night, as part of the Writing With Style program here at the Banff Centre, there are readings by some of the participaing writers. Here I am last night, giving my reading.

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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