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The past view of the future
Check out these predictions for the coming century by the Ladies Home Journal of 1900. Not bad, really, except maybe for that bit about cities being free of all noise, home deliveries via pneumatic tubes, electricity being used to stimulate plant growth, and the claim that air-ships will not be able to compete with surface …
More on that T-Rex tissue
The first-ever tissue recovered from a dinosaur fossil–cells and blood vessels from a Tyrannosaurus Rex known as MOR 1125–provides further evidence of a strong link between dinosaurs and birds.
Genetically modified bacteria to clean up the environment
It’s an idea sure to cause conflicting emotions in many a green-blooded environmentalist.
Where’s Tiger (or Fido, or Rover, or…)?
When I was a kid, my pet cat Tiger mysteriously disappeared, only to just as mysteriously re-appear two weeks later. If I’d had this, maybe I could have found him!
Copying consciousness
Canadian science fiction writer Robert J. Sawyer is intrigued by the mystery of human consciousness. He’s written about it in various ways over the course of his career, and the thought-provoking premise of his latest novel, Mindscan, is that in 40 years humans will be able to download their consciousness into android bodies. Interestingly, Ian …
What could be better than a swallowable camera?
Why, a swallowable camera with legs, of course–the better to see your intestinal track with, my dear. (Via Howard Lovy’s Nanobot.)
An update on SETI
Here’s an interesting update on the current state of the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) art, which has apparently rather more benefited than not by losing government funding. (Via Transterrestrial Musings.)
New Me 262s? In 2005?
In a word, yep. These jets, copies of German fighters that appeared very late in the Second World War (too late to really have much impact), are familiar to anyone who has flown as many computer-simulated European Theatre air missions as I have. But I had no idea people are building them today. Until now. …
On the road to regeneration
Researchers have taken some important steps along the road that may someday lead to limb regeneration–which is good news to me, since regeneration plays a role in a major plot point in my new novel Lost in Translation.
They grow up so fast…
Way back in 1994, I directed (for the first time) a production of the Royal Canadian Legion Second World War revue We’ll Meet Again for Regina Lyric Light Opera. Among the cast members was a girl named Cailin Stadnyck (in the white blouse in this picture). It may have been the first musical she’d ever …
Space renaissance?
I hope this story has it right.
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