The article is a bit old, now, but the breakthrough it reports on is a highly positive one. Perhaps that was why it didn’t get more coverage than it did. (Yes, I’m a bit cynical!) Space.com reported back in June that, “Scientists beam solar power to Earth from space for 1st time ever.” The article […]
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If it can’t be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion. Robert A. Heinlein – The Notebook of Lazarus Long Say what you will about Robert Heinlein, he does make you pause to think at least once in every book. His The Notebook of Lazarus Long is stuffed full of thinkers. I’ve
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Any talk about AI tends to be radically polarized. The lovers and the haters seem to have zero middle ground in common. I’m personally cautious about AI…for now. There are copyright issues yet to be sorted out, and most of the tools like ChatGPT (which I’ve tried) produce generic pablum that requires just as much
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I’ve been subscribed to ARS Technica for years. They’ve always been light and superficial, and just a bit clickbaity. Lately, I’ve drifted away because the ads were so numerous, I often couldn’t read the post at all. It’s because of sites like theirs that I finally installed an ad blocker. I know, I know…ad blockers
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This collection of essays and posts is a couple of years old, but I still found it fascinating to dig into. There’s a lot of stuff collected on this page. If you like imaging the future for yourself, or listening to people who do, then you’ll enjoy this collection. A couple of highlights include the
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A writer friend of mine popped up on Facebook a few days ago, touting a book that his mom wrote and just released. Normally, that would earn a thumbs up from me. But the cover of this book is so amazing, and the description implies the book will deliver on the promise of the cover.
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NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover, April 15, 2018 This photo is a bit old now. It’s from the Mars Curiosity rover, in 2018. I only came across it the other day (or, to be precise, re-discovered it). I thought I’d share, even though it’s a pretty ordinary looking photo. The average teenager with a cellphone could
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In 2016, NASA released a collection of posters featuring exoplanets and other stellar destinations, as travel posters. Extremely high resolution, large scale versions of them were available, and as I was pretty hooked by them, a family member who had access to a high resolution plotter and plastic printing sheets, downloaded the files (they’re free),
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The TV series, Foundation, has just finished its second season on Apple TV. I thought everyone who cares about good science fiction would know about the series, but a reader I was conversing with the other day was not aware of it. Because of that conversation, I thought I’d mention the show here. Perhaps Apple
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K-Lytics, a service that researches trends and rankings of all the categories on Amazon, put out their most recent Science Fiction & Fantasy report in July this year. I tend to take notice of K-lytic reports, even though they’re focused exclusively on Amazon, for the trends and comparisons tend to hold true across most of
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