Maybe prospective parents should be issued one of these. It beats that old high-school “treat this egg like a baby” drill. (Via Medgadget.)
Willett’s Law of Non-Fiction Writing
In honor of my turning in of the last materials required for my book Genetics Demystified, I present: Willett’s First Law of Non-Fiction Writing No non-fiction book outline survives contact with the actual content. In any event, the book is done, and thus, though I still have a million other things crying out for attention, …
Particle accelerator helping to uncover Archimedes’s words
Here’s another story on using modern technology to uncover the secrets concealed in an ancient manuscript. In this case the technology is a particle accelerator, and the document is the Archimedes Palimpsest, thought to be a 10th century copy of an original long-lost Archimedes manuscript which was copied over by a later scribe. I saw …
Go south, young blogger!
As far south as you can go, in this case: 75 Degrees South, a.k.a. Antarctica.
Dr. Jones to uncover Ark of the Covenant?
No, really, that’s what this story says, although personally I’d take it with a grain of salt as large as you’d get if the Dead Sea evaporated completely. Here’s Dr. Jones’s own Web site.
A smile from the Queen
Queen Elizabeth II smiles as she accepts flowers from my daughter, Alice, May 18, 2005, in front of the Legislative Building in Regina, Saskatchewan. See previous post for details!
Waiting for the Queen
My almost-four-year-old daughter Alice waits in the rain for her chance to give flowers to Queen Elizabeth yesterday morning, May 18. Alice and I and a family friend made the trek around the end of the lake Wednesday morning to see Queen Elizabeth be officially welcomed to Canada. We took flowers, more in the faint …
Live performances from dead pianists
A remarkable concert in Raleigh, North Carolina, this Thursday, May 19, will feature Glenn Gould performing excerpts from Bach’s Goldberg Variations, and the great French pianist Alfred Cortot playing a Chopin Prelude, on a nine-foot Yamaha grand piano. What’s remarkable about it is that Gould died in 1982 and Cortot in 1962. But the performances …
By their covers…
you shall know them.
Space art in children’s books
Here’s a fascinating site that shows art relating to space and space travel that appeared in children’s books from 1883 to 1974 (via John Scalzi).
Our future masters, in infancy?
More on the self-replicating robots: here’s a page with pictures and video (via John Scalzi).
Robert J. Sawyer on Net.talk tomorrow
Oh, and while I’m on the subject of science fiction, Hugo and Nebula-Award winning author Robert J. Sawyer will be our guest on the Access Communications TV program Net.talk that I host every Thursday. You have to live in Regina (and be an Access subscriber) to see it, alas, but if you happen to, please …
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