Big dose of music hackery, handful of author interviews and articles, SETI and the origin of the universe …

• 1 - CDS review: Hanoi Rocks - Fashion

  Enjoyably cheesy cock-rock-blues from the Finnish fops.

  (tags: paulgraven Fashion HanoiRocks review single music)

• 2 - Album review : Bad Religion - New Maps of Hell

  It’s a Bad Religion album. It does exactly what you expect to … and thank f*ck for that.

  (tags: paulgraven NewMapsOfHell BadReligion review album music)

• 3 - Album review : Northern State : Can I Keep This Pen ?

  Sassy NuYorican hip-hop chicitas turn in a diverse and enjoyable album.

  (tags: paulgraven CanIKeepThisPen NorthernState review album music)

• 4 - Album review: 3 - The End Is Begun

  Coheed & Cambria’s tour-mates return with an intricate and spiritual prog-rock concept album

  (tags: paulgraven TheEndIsBegun 3 review album music)

• 5 - Album review: Conil - Strange Part Of The Country

  Smoke-voiced London bluesman emotes every beautiful low you’ve ever experienced, and then some

  (tags: paulgraven StrangePartOfTheCountry Conil review album music)

• 6 - Album review: Kinski - Down Below It’s Chaos

  A dark and luscious album of majestic shoegazing nihilism from Seattle stalwarts (seriously - one of the best albums I’ve heard in years).

  (tags: paulgraven DownBelowIt’sChaos Kinski review album music)

• 7 - Album review: Daughtry - Daughtry

  American Idol rock reject delivers surprisingly decent radio-friendly début album

  (tags: paulgraven Daughtry review album music)

• 8 - Album review: Arsonists Get All The Girls - The Game Of Life

  A savage and surreal barrage of ideas from extreme metal madmen

  (tags: paulgraven TheGameOfLife ArsonistsGetAllTheGirls review album music)

• 9 - Album review: Mea Culpa - First To Ripen

  Bristolian five-piece give birth to a new sub-genre – ladies and gentlemen, this is post-metal

  (tags: paulgraven FirstToRipen MeaCulpa review album music)

• 10 - Artificial bones made with 3D inkjet printers

  “… using 3D inkjet printers to produce tailor-made artificial bones for use in facial reconstructive surgery.”

  (tags: bionics technology surgery reconstructive medicine bone artificial fabbing printing 3D)

• 11 - Karl Schroeder - Colonizing Planet Earth

  “Space colonization is the Rosetta stone for earthly sustainability because it’s entirely about living in the absence of ecosystem services. The Moon, Mars and the asteroids are a great experimental laboratory that we’re ignoring at our own peril.”

  (tags: colonisation space resources ecosystem ecology futurism sf scifi fiction science writer author KarlSchroeder)

• 12 - Selfish Bastards, Every One - Peter Watts on altruism

  “… behaviour that seems noble at first glance turns out to be stone self-serving upon closer examination: another brand of faux altruism that has far more in common with peacock’s tails and wattles on chickens than with any spark of divine generosity.”

  (tags: selfishness psychology altruism PeterWatts writer author sf scifi fiction science)

• 13 - Vernor Vinge interviewed

  French site ActuSF talks to Vinge about Rainbows End! DRM! Trusted Computing! And (naturellement) the Technological Singularity! (Interview text in English)

  (tags: singularity RainbowsEnd sf scifi fiction science interview writer author VernorVinge)

• 14 - William Gibson interviewed by Rick Kleffel

  Podcast-a-go-go! Includes readings from Spook Country and Neuromancer! wh00t!

  (tags: SpookCountry Neuromancer cyberpunk writer author sf scifi fiction science interview podcast WilliamGibson)

• 15 - How did the Universe Begin?

  “Even as the theories attempting to solve this mystery grow increasingly complex, scientists are haunted by the possibility that some of the most critical links in their chain of reasoning is wrong.”

  (tags: origins models science theory physics universe space)

• 16 - Is there anybody out there?

  “I’ll put the bottom line up top: there is no compelling evidence for life beyond Earth. No life of any kind. And I’m not just talking about the little grey guys…”

  (tags: Mars science life extraterrestrial SETI space)

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