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In the Now How About That Dep’t: The bonding gene
Just reading this article gives me entirely too many ideas for SF stories having to do with scary possible gene therapies… A study of Swedish twin brothers found that differences in a gene modulating the hormone vasopressin were strongly tied to how well each man fared in marriage. “Our main finding was an association between [...]
Google Earth and animal magnetism
In today’s “moos:“ German scientists using satellite images posted online by the Google Earth software program have observed something that has escaped the notice of farmers, herders and hunters for thousands of years: Cattle grazing or at rest tend to orient their bodies in a north-south direction just like a compass needle. Studying photographs of [...]
Hadron abuse
One more thing I hadn’t thought I needed to be worried about. (with a tip of the hat to our cousins at Bad Astronomy Blog) Tags: hadron, abuse, subatomic, particle, CERN
Briefly: WTF?
…This is a canned blog entry. At the time it’s posted, I’ll be on my way to Dublin to catch my flight to Sweden. But I saw this and thought that by the morning, maybe there’ll be some take on whether the subject is a hoax, or a genuine monster in the technical sense of the [...]
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30+ years in print, 50+ novels, assorted TV and movie work, the NYT Bestseller List a few times, blah blah blah. Also: the Young Wizards series, 1983-2010 and beyond.
That said, sometimes I want to talk about anything but writing. This is one place where that happens.
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