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. …
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.
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 …
I hope this story has it right.
Read this great essay by Todd Seavey “On fictional universes and the fans who rationalize them.” (Via The Volokh Conspiracy.) In my case, I admit, it strikes close to home.
Hey, this is cool: I just got a letter informing me my children’s biography of J.R.R. Tolkien, J.R.R. Tolkien: Master of Imaginary Worlds, published by Enslow Publishers, has been named to the VOYA (Voice of Youth Advocates) 10th annual Nonfiction Honor List. VOYA is a library magazine aimed at the librarians who serve young adults. …
I just barely turned in the manuscript, and lo and behold, what do I find on Amazon today but… I’m so glad I got the thing done last week…
Check out the outstanding images in this online gallery of works from the First Annual Art of Science Competition at Princeton University.
For the first time, scientists have watched transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, the infectious prion proteins that cause brain-wasting diseases like so-called Mad Cow Disease, invade and move within brain cells. In fact, they’ve got movies.
Live Science has compiled a helpful list of the Top 10 Ways to Destroy Earth.
That’s what this study says. Yeah, right.
This past Saturday, physicians and academics from around the world gathered in Germany to mark the bicentennial of a medical breakthrough considered as important as the discovery of ether, X-rays and blood types–although the man who made that breakthrough is far from being a household name. Freidrich Wilhelm Adam Serturner was a 20-year-old pharmacist’s assistant …
