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Monday, February 18, 2013

Science & writing links

Science
above APOD includes constellations mapped
Doctors will be replaced?:
"[A] pair of predictive modeling techniques can make significantly better decisions about patients’ treatments than can doctors acting alone. How much better? They claim a better than 50 percent reduction in costs and more than 40 percent better patient outcomes."
Funny until the end when he decides to preach on love:  How to Woo a Scientist

Dogs understand human perspective, maybe

3D map of brain's wiring

Mystery of Easter Island

Writing
Short stories make a comeback in the digital reading age.

Choose your own decision, purported to be Russian-translated and confiscated by the CIA


Battle of the books


Robert Reed's "Eight Episodes" at Lightspeed (originally appeared in Asimov's, one of his better short stories)

Orbit has monthly deals on ebooks

Philip K. Dick's Man in the High Castle is being filmed

New online video lectures from Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Free ebook from Kim Vandervoort

Increasing productivity from David Farland

Why SF poetry is bad (Mike Allen responds)

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