SF&F vs. Firefox, thorium power, the V8 blender, buzzing tunnels…

• 1 – 20 Ways Science Fiction and Fantasy Are Like Mozilla Firefox
  A bit of flippancy from David Louis Edelman at Deep Genre. Does what it says on the tin.
  (tags: comparison literature books genre fantasy fiction science Firefox Mozilla)
• 2 – Serious Study: Immaturity Levels Rising
  Many older people simply never achieve mental adulthood, according to a leading expert on evolutionary psychiatry. No sh*t? Via Slashdot.
  (tags: development maturity aging mental science society culture psychology)
• 3 – Thorium reactors for earth and moon
  AdvancedNanotechnology rounds up the scuttle on thorium-powered nuclear reactors.
  (tags: halflife radioactive toxic waste uranium thorium generation energy power nuclear)
• 4 – World energy consumption could be cut by half if clean technology applied
  “We have the means, now we need the will,” said Claude Mandil, executive director of the International Energy Agency (IEA). Well, duh.
  (tags: IEA futurism green clean fuel environment ecology consumption energy world)
• 5 – V8 Blender
  Want a smoothy with more oompf? This V8 powered blender is for you!
  (tags: overkill madness blender engine V8 images pictures hardware)
• 6 – The Clenched Fists of Science
  ‘Five Fists of Science’ by Matt Fraction reviewed at Emerald City. I wonder if my ordered copy is in at the local comics emporium yet?
  (tags: steampunk history alternate scifi SF fiction comic novel graphic Science Fists Five Fraction Matt)
• 7 – Sophocles in Space
  ‘Gradisil’ by Adam Roberts reviewed at Emerald City. I’ve still not finished it; I should put it back into a priority position in the reading pile.
  (tags: review literature scifi SF fiction science writing books Roberts Adam Gradisil)
• 8 – Penny Boston’s Buzzing Tunnel
  Stop giggling at the back! BLDGBLOG reports on a cave-tunnel system that, as the title implies, buzzes for no known reason.
  (tags: life organisms extremophiles Mexico Luz Villa explore subterranean tunnel cave)

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