Okay, it’s not really our space program, but we’ll take it. A balloon test flight in Colorado for the da Vinci project (an entry in the X-Prize competition that will launch from Kindersely October 2, if all goes well) was successful.
Here’s to your health!
Apparently drinking can benefit your heart. Bottoms up!
Writing Diary: September 14, 2004
Today’s two focuses (foci?) were editing the science column for online and newspaper (you can read it below) and getting my application in for the 2005-2006 Writer-in-Residence position at the Regina Public Library. Which I did. Throw in assorted mundane tasks and a lot of blog-reading, and the day went by. Tonight I held my …
You are getting sleepy…
The stereotypical idea of hypnosis–the swinging pocket watch, the “You are getting sleepy…” patter, etc.–is so ingrained in us from countless depictions on stage and screen that it’s sometimes hard to take hypnosis seriously. Aggravating the problem, there has been no scientific consensus on how hypnotism works. That’s beginning to change: a new study is …
Writing Diary: September 13, 2004
Today was the day of my now every-other-week radio science column, so I was writing it (on hypnosis–it’ll be posted here tomorrow) this morning…after I held an audition for someone for the musical revue I’ll be directing for Regina Lyric Light Opera this fall. I did just a little bit of revising of Excalibur Reforged …
The Tunguska tale takes another twist
A Russian investigator claims he’s found pieces of extraterrestrial technology at the site of the 1908 Tunguska explosions James Oberg has his doubts.
One reason I think there’s life all over the universe…
…is because life can be found pretty much everywhere on Earth, even in the most inhospitable places.
An expert speaks on 60 Minutes’ forged memos
Harboring doubts about the 60 Minutes memos being forgeries? Read this.
Robot walks on water!
But it’s not a miracle–it’s just very, very small.
Reading Diary: September 11, 2004
Still plugging away at Bedlam’s Bard this week–and, I confess, enjoying it more than I did to begin with. Part of my problem with it was that the shape of the plot seemed all wrong for the thickness of the book, which resolved itself when I realized it’s really two short novels, not one. But …
The cholesterol connection to killing mosquitos
Here’s a new, promising approach to mosquito control: interfere with the pests’ ability to metabolize cholesterol.
Writing Diary: September 10, 2004
This is easy: no writing today! All I did was get SF Canada receipts and membership cards out, hang around my mother-in-law’s house waiting for some movers to come move a piece of furniture, and read blogs. Hey, not every day can be a winner.
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