…or it sure will be when we have the capability to use any flat surface as a control panel for…well, anything that needs a control panel.

Scientists say “it’s fairly plausible.”

I have been remiss not plugging Atlanta Nights. Consider it plugged. Of course, in the Old West, someone who was “plugged” was someone on the receiving end of six-gun justice; and if you prefer that usage, it might be more accurate to say that the publisher who accepted this novel, PublishAmerica, has been well and …

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Not to be confused with remote-controlled rescue rats.

This sounds like a great project: using computers to produce a blueprint of a designer drug that could stop some diseases–including influenza–from replicating in humans. With the growing concern about the expected next influenza pandemic, we should all keep our fingers crossed.

Thanks to Instapundit, I just discovered this cool blog focusing on emerging new medical technologies.

Romance Reviews Today has sent along a very nice review of Lost in Translation, which will appear on their site in their February 20 issue; I’ve posted it here with permission. The hatred between the bat-like S’sinn and the humans, who colonized their world twenty years ago, burns bright. Neither Jarrikk, one of the few …

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This is very cool: a wizard that shows you the popularity of various names over the years, in usage per million babies. Edward is apparently very old-fashioned…to which I say, good!

NASA has set May 15 as the launch date for the first space shuttle mission since the Columbia disaster of two years ago.

Does part of our brain act as an early warning system, monitoring environmental cues for possible danger? And is that why primitive tribes escaped devastation from the December 26 tsunami?

A team of experts will announce in March whether their test results on Tutankhamun ‘s mummy supports the idea that the boy king was murdered. Maybe the butler did it!

The December 26 tsunami appears to have uncovered the remains of a seventh-century port city in India.