Monthly Archives: November 2014
Wanna destroy the world?
Purdue University has teamed up with Imperial College London to create an impact simulator to calculate what would happen if an asteroid or a comet were to crash into the earth. Enter your various parameters and see what you would … Continue reading
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Consider your message
Supposedly Feminism is all about equality. At least that’s what they keep telling me, even though that’s not always what I see. So as an MBA, let me give you feminists the benefit of my Marketing 501 class: consider your … Continue reading
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A thrill of hope
I’m working on the pre-writing for my next novel. I don’t know what that means for other writers, but for me that means I’m trying to anticipate what I will need as background for my story. Though I hear all … Continue reading
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Observations on a re-read
With the exception of troll commenters, it’s difficult to be harder on authors than the authors themselves (and even then it’s often a dead heat). We’re just too close to our work to be objective, especially while we’re writing it. … Continue reading
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Bad news
Years ago under a different employer they insisted that every new employee had to go to “Happy Camp”, a three or four day off-site motivational/life-skills workshop. As with most such things it makes perfect sense while you’re in the program, … Continue reading
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Challenges and opportunities
This video is exceptional on a number of levels. Peter Dahmen, the engineer interviewed, does amazing work. And yet had he been rich enough to not have to ride public transportation he might have missed entirely an opportunity to excel. … Continue reading
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Happiness is never “out there”
If there is one thing that social media is teaching me, it’s that happiness is never going to be found “out there.” Nothing anyone else can do will ever make you happy–at least not for long. Most all my friends … Continue reading
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Falling for science, or perhaps just falling
The science geek in me thinks this is totally awesome. My only regret is that they don’t really show the drop under vacuum conditions at normal speed. That would have been more believable to my eyes than the slo-mo. But … Continue reading
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Book Review: Hollow World, by Michael J. Sullivan
“Hollow World” is, by his own admission, a book Michael J. Sullivan never intended to write. He’s got plenty of fans (and work to do) in fantasy without trying to branch out and tackle science fiction. But he did, and … Continue reading
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Viral hate vs. viral support
Jason Money, in the last football game of his high school career, made a mistake that cost his team the game. That would be bad enough for anyone, let alone a teenager. But then video of the mistake goes viral, … Continue reading
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