Tag: science
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Still More New Horizons Pluto Celebration
In keeping with my previous Pluto posts, found here and here, yet more from NPR and a wonderful, informative collection of links and information from IO9, on the New Horizons Pluto mission, and the data and imagery it is generating. It seems so ironic to me that within the past few weeks the state of…
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1 In 4 Americans Think Sun Rotates Around Earth
I’m posting this link out of shame and disgust. Ugh! I guess it’s what creationism gets us. http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/02/14/277058739/1-in-4-americans-think-the-sun-goes-around-the-earth-survey-says No, they’re not exaggerating. Or making it up as part of some “socialistic” plot. And adding these as a public service:
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Explosive Bras Signal Love Connection
Better be careful…you could put an eye out with that thing! http://www.techtimes.com/articles/2979/20140127/think-japanese-bra-that-unhooks-when-woman-finds-true-love.htm
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Keeping With the Speculative Fiction Sub-Theme…
http://www.amazon.com/COVER-RUTHVEN-ROCKET-MUSHROOM-ART/dp/B00GV4QYSG/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_3
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Excerpt: Novel in Progress
Someone asked me about the novel in progress…here’s some: It took both of them to drag me up from the hole, and from their grunts and curses it wasn’t easy for them. I had stopped struggling weeks before, and was paid for it with harder currency than when I’d fought back, but there wasn’t a…
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Novella Excerpt: Sharp Del
“Come on out of there, you motherless—.” Sharp Del’s voice died beneath a deeper, more malevolent rumble. “My mother,” the hulking Brin stepped out from the shadows behind him, “was very young.” Sharp Del whirled around with startled fury, swinging the heavy ball gun a bit further from his body than he ought to…
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U.F.O.–My Gateway Science Fiction Drug
I can remember playing Star Trek when I was awfully small, maybe 6 or 7, with my friend Dan, who was Spock to my Kirk. Every once in a while, this weird kid named Jimmy McKelvy visited his grandparents on the next block over and he would play Bones–he had this awesome Phaser toy that…
Old Road Apples 