A rap version of The Canterbury Tales sounds interesting, but for my money the greatest rap song ever has to be Moxie Fruvous‘s rap version of Green Eggs and Ham: “Hey kids, listen up if you wanna be sick, ’cause your dinner looks like something from a Cronenberg flick…” it begins, and it only gets …
The House of Representatives in the U.S. has endorsed NASA’s new mandate for Moon and Mars missions. Doesn’t mean they’ll actually give NASA all the money it says it needs, of course, but the support is nice.
If they hold up, the conclusions from this story bode ill for the discovery of existing life on Mars. But that’s a big “if.”
Here’s a fascinating article about the true story that inspired the tragic tale of Madame Butterfly, made famous by Puccini’s opera of the same name. It turns out the real-life story was also tragic, but in a very different way.
A team of British and Russian scientists have discovered a family of materials only one atom thick, exhibiting properties previously thought impossible, that could be used in everything from clothing to computers. We’re talking “ultra-fast transistors, micromechanical devices and nano-sensors” within just a few years; completely unimagined technological advances beyond that. Best thing about this …
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…or at least his ashes are.
“Bones” is gone, and now “Scotty”. But they live on in re-runs. The one thing I learned about James Doohan in today’s obituaries I didn’t know before was that he was missing the middle finger of his right hand. As someone on the SF Canada listserver commented today, that must have been a real handicap …
Thirty-six years ago today, human beings first set foot on another world. Forty-six years ago today, I made my own first appearance on this world. I modestly leave it to the reader to decide which was the more momentous event.
Avoid clichés like the plague, writing books tell you, and ordinarily I do my best to do so–but this week, I can’t help but start out with a cliché, one of the oldest in the book, the question every small child supposedly asks at some time or other: “Why is the sky blue?” It might …
That’s the question being asked by space scientists after the Cassini spacecraft returned images from its 175-kilometre-away pass of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. The landscape is strewn with giant boulders–and right now, nobody can explain how they got there. I love it when space probes–or other kinds of scientific research–result in surprises like this. Show you …
The U.K. Globe Theatre (as opposed to Regina, Saskatchewan’s, Globe Theatre) is going to use reconstructed Elizabethan accents in its upcoming production of Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida. Now that, I’d love to hear. But I’d want a copy of the script to follow along.
