[Jay Lake Memorial link bouquet]
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deborahjrossKeep the money in the family in which Nicola Griffith (an amazing writer!) praises Book View Cafe for its innovative book publishing. Which, if you follow this and my blog, you already knew. Why should you buy ebooks from us, when it means a few extra minutes sideloading them into your ereader or tablet? Because not only are they great reads, but a whopping 95% of the proceeds go to the author.
A cool Lagoon for a hot summer night. "The Lagoon Nebula, also called M8 and NGC 6523, represents a huge area of star formation, lying in the constellation of Sagittarius."
Tentacled, Underwater Robot to Explore Tight Places. The technology is very nifty, but I simply could not resist the headline. My mind did...um, interesting things with it.
If asteroid's timing had been different, dinosaurs might still exist.http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-dinosaur-extinction-asteroid-chicxulub-20140728-story.html. Is there a galactic conspiracy to prevent dinosaurs from evolving into space-faring races? "Call it Murphy’s law of ecology: The environmental upheaval at the time could not have killed the dinosaurs on its own -- but it made them much easier to kill off when an asteroid hit. A few million years earlier, when the food web was stronger, or later, when new species could have evolved, some of them might have survived such an impact -- and the world could have been a very different place."
Generation of Tanners See Spike in Deadly Melanoma. as in... "200 percent jump in deadly melanoma cases since 1973."
This from Reuters -- is this for real or have we stumbled into a rerun of Outbreak?: A Woman With Ebola Escaped Quarantine And Is On The Run In A City Of 1 Million. According to the report, her family stormed the hospital where the patient was in an isolation ward after testing positive for Ebola, and carried her away.
Now this update from BBC: Ebola outbreak: Sierra Leone escaped patient dies after turning herself in. It's for real, and countries like Sierra Leone are utterly unprepared to deal with Ebola.
A cool Lagoon for a hot summer night. "The Lagoon Nebula, also called M8 and NGC 6523, represents a huge area of star formation, lying in the constellation of Sagittarius."
Tentacled, Underwater Robot to Explore Tight Places. The technology is very nifty, but I simply could not resist the headline. My mind did...um, interesting things with it.
If asteroid's timing had been different, dinosaurs might still exist.http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-dinosaur-extinction-asteroid-chicxulub-20140728-story.html. Is there a galactic conspiracy to prevent dinosaurs from evolving into space-faring races? "Call it Murphy’s law of ecology: The environmental upheaval at the time could not have killed the dinosaurs on its own -- but it made them much easier to kill off when an asteroid hit. A few million years earlier, when the food web was stronger, or later, when new species could have evolved, some of them might have survived such an impact -- and the world could have been a very different place."
Generation of Tanners See Spike in Deadly Melanoma. as in... "200 percent jump in deadly melanoma cases since 1973."
This from Reuters -- is this for real or have we stumbled into a rerun of Outbreak?: A Woman With Ebola Escaped Quarantine And Is On The Run In A City Of 1 Million. According to the report, her family stormed the hospital where the patient was in an isolation ward after testing positive for Ebola, and carried her away.
Now this update from BBC: Ebola outbreak: Sierra Leone escaped patient dies after turning herself in. It's for real, and countries like Sierra Leone are utterly unprepared to deal with Ebola.
