Daily Archives: January 15, 2012

A Look at Cover Art

by Sherwood Smith The other day, Jim C. Hines cracked up a portion of the Internet with his attempt to assume some of the female poses on cover art. A few of those poses seem only possible if said female’s … Continue reading


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Biological Revolutions of the Mind: An animal perspective

(Picture from here.) I’ve been thinking about the long view recently. Specifically, the age of life on this planet. Wikipedia’s timeline of evolution is interesting but it compresses as it approaches us, in effect giving the same weight of the … Continue reading


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