Category Archives: Science

A Sense of Infinite Possibility

Posted on May 23, 2013 by

Some mornings I wake up stunned by what the human race is on the verge of understanding and doing. Those are the days when I really regret that I’m not immortal. I’m not interested in the immortality of a Roger … Continue reading →


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What Makes It Winter?

Posted on April 25, 2013 by

Steven Popkes’s Sunday post on spring in New England inspired me to look up the temperatures in Austin for this past winter, to see if it was truly as mild as I thought it was. And it was: we had … Continue reading →


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Welcome Spring

Posted on April 21, 2013 by

We live just outside of Boston. Everybody knows what’s been happening up here so I won’t go into it. I usually like to take what’s happening in my life and spin it into something I can blog about it. Not … Continue reading →


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Things Are Happening Here

Posted on April 7, 2013 by

(Picture from here.) There are a lot of things we can be upset about these days. The sequester. Intransigence in Washington. Unemployment. However, one thing we should be happy about: the state of science. A lot of things came across … Continue reading →


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Real Life Imitates Science Fiction

Posted on March 21, 2013 by

The New York Times reports that scientists are looking into using genetic material — including some found frozen in the permafrost — to bring back extinct species. In fact, they’ve already tried cloning extinct species, though the results have not … Continue reading →


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Brain meets Brain

Posted on March 10, 2013 by

(Image from here.) A very exciting piece of research came across my desk this week. We have been hearing about Brain-to-Machine-Interfaces (BMI) for a bit now. Not that they’ve become humdrum at this point but we’re familiar with them. Two … Continue reading →


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MAD SCIENTIST WEEK: Mandelbrot Moldrot

Posted on February 19, 2013 by

In honor of BVC’s Mad Scientist week, here’s a short excerpt from MANDELBROT MOLDROT, which first appeared in DAW’s MISKATONIC UNIVERSITY in 1996. It’s also in my short story collection, ELDRITCH EVOLUTIONS (Amazon) and ELDRITCH EVOLUTIONS (BookViewCafe). So without further … Continue reading →


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Mad Scientist Week: Obsession and Shortsightedness

Posted on February 19, 2013 by

Mad Scientists come in two varieties. There are scientists who are just, well, a little nuts. These guys operate at the intersection of madness and ambition, but not all of them are eee-vil. There’s Dr. Emmett Brown from the Back to … Continue reading →


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“Walk the Walk, Mister President.”

Posted on February 18, 2013 by

by Laura Anne Gilman So there was a “Forward on Climate Change” march in Washington this past Sunday. You may or may not have seen coverage on the news (my folks caught some on ABC Sunday night). It was a … Continue reading →


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Differences in Culture, Not in Brains

Posted on February 7, 2013 by

Here’s a headline I saw recently on an article in The New York Times online: Girls Lead in Science Exam, but Not in the United States Every three years, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development gives a science test … Continue reading →


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