Links for 12-12-2006
Galactic-scale nature/nurture, the maths of predicting murder, more internet addiction technophobia, why book-stores suck…
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“Murky Depths is a new magazine with a difference, featuring top quality speculative fiction with sprinklings of horror and fantasy that push the boundaries of science fiction.” Blimey, another one! Let’s hope it does well.
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“Charting remote parts of the universe revealed that the distribution of galaxies has considerably evolved with time, depending on an individual galaxy’s immediate surroundings.”
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“Spending too much time on the Internet: bad habit or something more serious? A team of researchers [...] has found that for one in eight Americans, excessive Internet use is a growing problem.” ZOMFG! Ban it immediately!
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“It’s great to have a public debate about the ethics of preventive detention (for psychiatric patients and other potential risk groups, perhaps). Before you career off and have that vital conversation, you need to understand the maths of predicting very r
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“The journey itself offers up all sorts of magic, not least waking to a moonlit and frozen steppes and gazing up to a constellation filled sky. That hissing sound? Oxygen being piped into the carriage.” A slow train to Lhasa.
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Watts releases his new much-feted but hard-to-get-hold-of novel as a Creative Commons licensed PDF download. How can you refuse?
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“I was standing there looking at the pitiful collection of science fiction books listening to the Muzak version of Rod Stewart’s ‘Do You Think I’m Sexy’ when I suddenly remember – I hate chain book sellers.” SF Signal brings the snark.
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“…detailed studies for the European Extremely Large Telescope [...] will make it possible to start, in three years time, the construction of an optical/infrared telescope with a diameter around 40m that will revolutionise ground-based astronomy.”
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“Someday, much sooner than you’d like, that shiny new toy you just bought will break. When it happens, you’ll swear, you’ll cry — then you’ll sigh and open your wallet.”
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