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Saturn Has a New Moon
(Well, it’s new to us.) The formation of Saturn’s G ring appears to have finally been solved, with the discovery of yet another moon. Researchers think that meteorites whacking into the small moon break off the icy chunks that form one of Saturn’s more mysterious rings. Link
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Schroedinger’s Cross-Stitch
For the crafty amongst us, Etsy seller Larripin Labs (“Home of the Cross-Stitched Physicist”) sells, um, cross-stitched physicists. Patterns currently available are Richard Feynman, Erwin Schrodinger, and Michio Kaku. She says, “since cross stitch seems to be a mostly female pursuit, I hope to spark some interest in young women in math and science.” I…
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Review: The Handmaid’s Tale
One final archived review. JohnT! Come back! We miss you! ————— Before we begin, there are SPOILERS aplenty about this book. Any and all are free to post what you want about this book without having to resort to the spoiler tags. Also, my initial post is rather large, so I’ve taken the liberty of…
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2008 Nebula Awards – Final Ballot
Nebula Final Ballot SFWA is proud to announce the nominees for the 2008 Nebula Awards. The awards will be presented at the 2009 Nebula Awards® Weekend, April 24-26, 2009 in Los Angeles, California. For more information on the awards and the Nebulas Weekend, please visit the Nebula Awards Website. (You don’t have to be an…
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Mars Has a Water Cycle
At least, a little one. Scientists are still poring over data gathered from the Phoenix Mars Lander, but think they’ve found evidence that water vapor is collapsing into the Martian soil at night. The thin films of “unfrozen water” (not as free-flowing as water but more mobile than ice) are enough to allow some chemistry…
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See-thru sea-life
This is just bizarre. (I can never remember how to upload a picture, so here’s the URL) Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute The things at the front of its head that look like eyes are actually nostrils. The green bodies inside its head are the eyes.
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Boom!
Carlos Labs has a cool doodad that shows the thermal damage if you hit a target (like a city) with various nukes…or a big asteroid. I have no idea if sound is also applied – my speakers don’t work. Try it on a city you love. Or one you don’t. I nuked Disneyland :-) Ground…
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Review: Foundation
Another archived review from the prolific and opinionated JohnT…. ————— Let’s start with the standard info. Be warned that this book has been reprinted quite a number of times by different publishers: Name: Foundation Author: Isaac Asimov Published: 1951 in novel form, though the individual stories within were published in Astounding magazine in the proceeding…
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World of Tears …
Philip Jose’ Farmer died this morning in his home in Peoria, Illinois. He was 91.
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Review: Perdido Street Station
I’ve been digging through the archives of our old message boards (which succumbed to spam long ago but recently arose, phoenix-like, from its own digital ashes), and unearthed some book reviews that a user with the handle JohnT wrote some time ago. I wanted to feature a couple on the blog, because they’re very thorough.…