That’s what they’ve got in Chicago. And that’s just plain nuts. “The vilest display of human venality I’ve heard of all day” just about covers it, all right.
Brain changes
We’re all getting older. (As the saying goes, it’s better than the alternative.) And as we age, we can’t help noticing that our brains don’t work quite the same way as they did when we were younger. Researchers have certainly noted this, and whether it’s because the average age of the population is going up …
Diamonds are a planet’s best friend…
…especially when they’re layers of diamond kilometres thick.
Planets, planets everywhere?
The more we look, the more we find planets–or, in this case, potential planets–everywhere. What’s fascinating about this is that these incipient planets orbit a brown dwarf, a “failed star.” Nobody expected to find potential planets in that situation. What’s more, the brown dwarf is warm enough that any planets that form might even be …
Rise of the tricorders, Part 3
Another Star Trekish development: a new infectious disease diagnostics tool that can simultaneously detect and recognize 22 pathogens, both viruses and bacteria, that can present as clinically similar pulmonary disease. “Dr. McCoy…paging ‘Bones’ McCoy…”
It should be at least relatively good…
Einstein’s theory of relativity has inspired a new ballet.
The bombing of Saskatchewan
I’ve known about the Japanese effort to deliver bombs to North America via balloons during the Second World War, but until today i didn’t know that they actually successfully bombed Saskatchewan.
The changing brain
We’re all getting older. (As the saying goes, it’s better than the alternative.) And as we age, we can’t help noticing that our brains don’t work quite the same way as they did when we were younger. Researchers have certainly noted this, and whether it’s because the average age of the population is going up …
What are the chances there’d be two of us?
We’d all like to think our names are unique, but they generally aren’t. Consider “Ed Willett.” Not only is there an Ed Willett who’s some kind of government commissioner in Australia, there’s also this Ed Willett, part of the “World Chamber Music” duo known as Chance. Fortunately, he doesn’t look a thing like me. I …
Ed talks!
OK, maybe not as earth-shaking as “Garbo talks,” but still… I didn’t know this was online until I stumbled over it today. Here’s a clip of me describing the premise of my novel Spirit Singer from Jillian “The BookChick” Bell’s CJTR program Saskatchewan Books Go Public.
Carbon storage
Yes, yes, I know, the only true solution to greenhouse warming of the planet is a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. But while we’re working on that–and the only way we’re going to achieve it, realistically, is with a switch to alternative forms of energy–it seems to me to make a lot of sense to …
Birds of a feather…
Ever wonder why herds, flocks, gaggles, murders, etc., etc., of various animals manage to stay together while moving all over the place? A new study at Princeton University may have the answer–and may point the way to understanding how humans move in crowds.
My latest live walk and vlog
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