7 Reasons to Be Reading
Teachers and Bosses Reject Creativity? Something watch out for.
The Adverse Childhood Experiences Study uncovers the early-childhood reason many can't lose weight.
'Muppet Police Sketch' Mocked by Internet Leads to Arrest. Who's Laughing Now?
The Health Benefits of Humor and Laughter
APB-SAL is a blog about education, science, science education, fiction, science fiction, literature, literary stories, poetry, and anything else that strikes the blogger's fancy. NOTE: This blog interrogates art. It rarely make moral proclamations. For that attend the church or politician of your choice. This blog concerns aesthetics, not propaganda. Consider this as interviews with books where the interviewer presents interviewees, so you get what you need to do your own thinking.
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Friday, February 21, 2014
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
"An Act of Faith" by Ian Watson
First appeared in Nature. It troubled one reader to write in (editors dismissed complaint with a title: "Science friction as fantasy irritates religious sensibilities"). This summary spoils the conceits.God made humanity in his own image as a rapidly evolving testing ground for diseases that might affect him. However, Jesus becomes too fat for the second coming because people keep eating transubstantiating wafering, which Jesus takes on as mass. Interesting literalized, speculative what-if... although the reverse might be another possibility.
Monday, August 19, 2013
Science and Technology links
What happens when you step into a black hole, revisited?
New habitable planets
Inspirational terraforming clip
Inspirational clip about trash into treasure in Paraguay
David Brin's positive view of technology changing the world (environmentally)
The "Hyperloop" -- 800-mile-per-hour travel (or 4000mph)
Standing/walking on the job:
Jo Walton points to John Brunner as at forefront of the internet SF, but Gregory Benford points out his own predecessor story although he allows it may not be the best.
Flattening ebook sales growth
"If the firewall argument was right, one of three ideas that lie at the heart and soul of modern physics, had to be wrong. Either information can be lost after all; Einstein’s principle of equivalence is wrong; or quantum field theory, which describes how elementary particles and forces interact, is wrong and needs fixing. Abandoning any one of these would be revolutionary or appalling or both."Locations for future cities
New habitable planets
Inspirational terraforming clip
Inspirational clip about trash into treasure in Paraguay
David Brin's positive view of technology changing the world (environmentally)
The "Hyperloop" -- 800-mile-per-hour travel (or 4000mph)
Standing/walking on the job:
"What you need as well, the latest research suggests, is constant low-level activity."Artificial Chromosomes (enthusiastic article that could use a few more words of caution)
Jo Walton points to John Brunner as at forefront of the internet SF, but Gregory Benford points out his own predecessor story although he allows it may not be the best.
Flattening ebook sales growth
Fails to point out (as one reader says, that this is growth; moreover, no mention is made of the decision to get rid of low-cost books at Amazon (<$2.99) because of their lucrative lack for authors/publishers.Ian R. MacLeod titles out in ebook formats
"writers, scientists, artists and engineers to collaborate on creative, ambitious visions of our near future."
Neal Stephenson on "Innovation Starvation"
Popular Science: SF writers imagine how we will work in the future.
Neal Stephenson on "Innovation Starvation"
Popular Science: SF writers imagine how we will work in the future.
Saturday, February 9, 2013
Patient Zero by Tananarive Due
Fantasy and Science Fiction, August 2000
Diary narrative about a boy whom we first suspect is sick and going to do because of the celebrities who give him their attention. Instead it's the opposite. Compelling.
Diary narrative about a boy whom we first suspect is sick and going to do because of the celebrities who give him their attention. Instead it's the opposite. Compelling.
Friday, January 25, 2013
Science Stories Prize fighters Support
ScienceWhat it's like on an orbiting space station lab:
Russia to the moon
DNA information-storage
Anti-aging baby
Coughing duration
David Brin revisits his idea of following prophesies to find who's prophetic (as well as what, when, where, why)
We are still stuck in high school:
[T]he prefrontal cortex has not yet finished developing in adolescents.... This explains why adolescents are such notoriously poor models of self-regulation, and why they’re so much more dramatic.... [E]verything an adolescent does... [and] feels—is just a little bit more intense. And you never get back to that intensity.... Puberty... is everyone’s first experience of a sentient madness.Why older brains don't remember
5 Historic Misconceptions
Stories to read or hear
Flannery O'Conner's "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" read by ol' Flannery herself.
Small Beer podcast of Kij Johnson's story
Online story from Richard Parks
Prize fighters future and presentStory Prize finalists
Philip K. Dick Award finalists
Books to look for in 2013
More books to look for (same year, different site: IO9)
SupportGlitter and Madness anthology
World SF Travel Fund
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