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Age as a state of mind

To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods. Robert A. Heinlein – The Notebook of Lazarus Long We’ve all heard the expression “set in their ways” – which is the other side of the coin to Heinlein’s observation. There’s growing scientific evidence that “age” is a state of mind far […]

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Quick! Who Manufactures The Greatest Number of Tires In the World?

If the image didn’t give it away for you, let me surprise you: Lego® creates more tires every year than any other company in the world.  The Guinness Book of World Records says so. Although if they keep producing sets like the Millennium Falcon (which my brother in law built and has sitting on his dining room

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I Hate Cliffhangers!

I had a reader tell me this week: Can I just ask, though, no more cliffhangers, I absolutely hate them!! It sounds like a simple, reasonable request on the surface (especially as the grammar and spelling were impressive.  I did not edit this at all).  Yet my internal radar started dinging like crazy. I did

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Why You Shouldn’t Rely On Best Seller Lists To Buy Books

Of course you’re looking for the best SF out there.  You don’t want to read crap, after all.  But there’s some very good reasons why using best-seller lists, “top author”, “Best of,” “most popular” and other similar listings of books is the worst way of finding the best stories to read. The traffic stats on my blog also

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