Eugie Foster battling cancer

Eugie Foster is waging battle against cancer [her posts on coping with cancer].  You can help.  She needs funds.  She asks that you purchase her collections:

• Mortal Clay, Stone Heart and Other Stories in Shades of Black and White

and/or

• Returning My Sister's Face and Other Far Eastern Tales of Whimsy and Malice

This Is the Sound of Science (& fiction)

This Is the Sound of Science

Sounds:

• Spaceships docking
• Hear a nuclear bomb -- advert included
• Silence

Robotic ants or antic robots (another webpage)

Prison Recidivism:  Will prisoners commit crimes again? Brain scans reveal.

Can cells be used as computers?  Researchers are trying to find out.

• Greg Bear said yes in "Blood Music" although I doubted it because of their simple drive to survive.  Bear may be right, after all!

Rudy Rucker on the fourth dimension and what its portal may be like.

"French kids are better behaved"

• not very meaty, but her books may be of interest
• however, I should add that my kids are better than yours

This Is the Sound of Science Fiction (and poetry and other fictions)

David Farland on

• Payoffs
• Flashbacks

Inspiration hands on writing

Dan Chaon reading contemporary literature

• J. Robert Lennon rebuts that most of it's bad.

Mark Lawrence on how George R.R. Martin changed fantasy

George Zebroski story in Nature

Interview with Bruce Boston (includes sound clips)

• Part 1

Writers, Writing, Free, Movies, Art, Science, Philosophy and Education

Writers and Writing:

Kristine Ong Muslim sample from her collection, We Bury the Landscape.

• Be one of the annoying cool kids to discover her before everyone else, and you'll say, "Oh, yeah. You mean you haven't read her?"

Submissions Grinder

Daniel Marcus calls for submissions to Geek Haiku

Rudy Rucker on Charles Stross

David Farland on setting accomplishable goals

Free ebooks:

David Farland story

Islamic SF

Movies

Film about writer Jay Lake's life & fight against cancer (Kickstarter/support)

Jay Lake has stage IV cancer and has a fundraiser for new treatment.

Petition to restore missing 25-min to Clive Barker's Nightbreed

Art and Artists (one's a fine writer, too)

Waiter Kevin Fair turns your guest checks into art

Mark Ferrari's art, writing and blog

Science, Philosophy and Education:

Giant squid

Future travelers to Mars may have to have psychological toughness.

Brain implant for depression.

The probable improbable?

Interesting link says, "[M]any students abandon their pursuit of science and engineering majors [because t]heir professors are grading too hard."

Comment: What this link doesn't show (and what I tell students) is that while students may get lower grades here, they may get higher pay/demand outside of college.  

On Social Media (gives partial perspective on where our electronic culture is headed):