Hubble provides a glimpse of the universe from a mere 700 million years after the Big Bang. Awwww, it’s so cute!

I may be indulging in wishful thinking, but it’s been so warm this week I may surely be forgiven for hoping that spring is finally here. The only downside to that is that in Saskatchewan, snow season is followed promptly by mosquito season. Fortunately, mosquito control techniques continue to advance, as the recent American Mosquito …

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This is a test of blogging by e-mail. Whee!

Will nanotechnology transform our lives or simply incrementally improve them? The nanotechnologists are divided.

Hubble has captured an image that reminds many of Van Gogh’s famous painting Starry Night. Well…maybe a bit. But whether it does or not, it’s magnificent.

The older I get, the better a gadget like this sounds.

I don’t think the United States Postal Service will pay much attention to me, since I’m in Canada, but if you’re in the U.S., you can help put Isaac Asimov on a stamp. Gordon van Gelder, editor of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, notes: There’s an ongoing series of stamps called the Literary …

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Will the next Martian rover be a Tumbleweed?

A team at the University of Buffalo has developed a new device that can safely and inexpensively destroy airborne biological agents in large buildings in minutes, instead of months.

No, not “Son Of Fusion,” but “sonofusion”, as in, related to sound. An exciting new development in the pursuit of low-cost fusion.

You probably don’t need me to link to this all-important finding today, since it’s all over the Web, but here’s a link anyway. You’re welcome.

Dennis Prager goes over the top, comparing those supporting same-sex marriages with Islamofascist terrorists, making a fool of himself with this sentence in the very first paragraph: The war over same-sex marriage and the war against Islamic totalitarianism are actually two fronts in the same war — a war for the preservation of the unique …

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