Messianic tablet causes a stir; Prozac, serotonin and depression; building bionic people; Clute on horror in sf …

• 1 – Tablet ignites debate on messiah and resurrection
  “… its authenticity has so far faced no challenge, so its role in helping to understand the roots of Christianity in the devastating political crisis faced by the Jews of the time seems likely to increase.”
  (tags: history cult messianic theology archaeology religion Jesus christianity)
• 2 – Transparency, Balance, Accuracy, and Community
  “Now more than ever paying it forward is not only the right thing to do, it is the smart thing to do. Information itself is no longer important in such a mega-world–it’s how you leverage that information.” VanderMeer.
  (tags: publicity profile internet advice transparency PR author writing blogging)
• 3 – How Prozac sent the science of depression in the wrong direction
  “Experiments have since shown that lowering people’s serotonin levels does not make them depressed, nor does it worsen their symptoms if they are already depressed.” Figures.
  (tags: prozac psychiatry pharma neuroscience serotonin depression brain biology)
• 4 – Do we have the technology to build a bionic human?
  “More and more of the body is becoming, if not obsolete, then certainly replaceable. But which of our body parts can be engineered today, and which will we have to make do with?” Quality links post.
  (tags: cyborg engineering human prothetics technology biology science bionics)
• 5 – Spies Want a Second Life of Their Own
  “Analysts will be able to explore their own past thinking about the data as well as enabling the proactive exploration of how that data might change in the future… “
  (tags: A-Space intelligence military worlds synthetic metaverse analysis data espionage)
• 6 – Physics for Amnesia: Horror Motifs in SF
  “To rationalize horror is to tolerate it.” Clute’s Gresham Symposium keynote.
  (tags: criticism genre literature motifs horror fiction science SF)
• 7 – How English Is Evolving Into a Language We May Not Even Understand
  “… it’s possible Chinglish will be more efficient than our version, doing away with word endings and the articles a, an, and the. After all, if you can figure out “Environmental sanitation needs your conserve,” maybe conservation isn’t so necessary.”
  (tags: chinglish words semantics linguistics language english China)