I stumbled across this old news story from England today: The Mirror (London, England); 1/31/1997 Snooty residents of a street named after a road sweeper say it devalues their homes. They claim house prices have dropped 10 per cent on Eddie Willett Road. Resident Reg Stanley said: “If people had known the road name when …
This one is 500 light years away, and is the first (of, one hopes, many) discovered by the Trans-Atlantic Exoplanet Survey, a network of small, relatively inexpensive telescopes designed to look specifically for planets orbiting bright stars.
Time flies when you’re having fun, the saying goes; now there’s scientific evidence to back that up. Dr. Anthony Chaston and Dr. Alan Kingstone of the University of Alberta’s Department of Psychology gave subjects tests that required them to find specific items in various images. Before they began, they were told that once the test …
Morning: column on time perception (to appear in this space later today). This was one of those science columns where I thought, “Oh, this should be easy,” and a couple of hours of clicking and printing out and reading and digesting later, finally set words to paper. Fiction writing followed; I got a few good …
…and in related news, odd rumbling sounds are heard from Lord Nelson’s grave.
…all us writers, anyway. Louis de Bernieres, author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, had his laptop computer stolen–containing the first 50 pages of his new novel, which he had not backed up. D’oh!
I haven’t kept this up as well as I’d hoped, but I’m back again with another thrill-a-minute report on What I’m Reading. I finished off the latest Locus–that always goes to the top of the pile–this week, and am still reading The Gilded Chain by Dave Duncan. I still can’t believe I managed to buy …
The CBC reports on an “arts invasion” of a building a short distance from where I live. Apparently, this neighborhood is deteriorating. You’d think I’d have noticed.
A belated writing diary for Thursday and Friday. Both days, worked on Science Centre project; Thursday, accomplished little, Friday, finally got a handle on it and at least outlined it (“it” being a comic-strip script pertaining to sustainable communities) to the end; now I just have to finish fleshing it out. br / br /Both …
A belated writing diary for Thursday and Friday. Both days, worked on Science Centre project; Thursday, accomplished little, Friday, finally got a handle on it and at least outlined it (“it” being a comic-strip script pertaining to sustainable communities) to the end; now I just have to finish fleshing it out. Both days also saw …
…but here’s a report from a couple of days ago of the successful teleportation of particles of light over a distance of 600m across the River Danube in Austria.
This is one of the stupidest Olympic-related stories I’ve read yet. An athlete can’t blog about her (or his) Olympic experiences because the IOC says so? Stupid, short-sighted, dumb and offensive–that just about covers it.
