One of my favorite current sci-fi authors, Iain M Banks has died at 59 years old.
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Author Iain Banks dies aged 59
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Oh no
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on June 9, 2013
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This is what I did today.
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on June 5, 2013
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Invitations to join various communities have greatly reduced the utility of G+ notifications…
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on June 1, 2013
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Invitations to join various communities have greatly reduced the utility of G+ notifications for me.
All of a sudden over the past month or so, I get many invitations a day to join communities that have nothing to do with my interests.
Now I need Gmail's spam technology for my G+ notifications.
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The size of asteroid 1998*QE2* (the one that's approaching close to Earth) compared…
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on May 31, 2013
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The size of asteroid 1998*QE2* (the one that's approaching close to Earth) compared to the QE2 ocean liner.
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I'm trying to explain dark matter to my three year old daughter, and she goes…
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on May 25, 2013
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I'm trying to explain dark matter to my three year old daughter, and she goes "Why don't those silly scientists just shine a bright light on it?"
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Some amazing looking stuff being talked about at this years SIGGRAPH
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on May 24, 2013
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 Here's a video preview of some of the techniques being explored.
If you're not familiar, SIGGRAPH Is where people get together and talk about stuff like making 3d graphics more realistic.
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This is a 3d-printed bioplastic windpipe
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on May 23, 2013
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The splint was surgically sewn around Kaiba’s airways in February of last year. Just 21 days later he was taken off the ventilator and hasn’t been back on it since. His trachea is now growing normally around the splint, which will fully absorb into his body after two to three years. With a little ingenuity, a condition that could’ve plagued Kaiba for his entire life–and likely would have had he been born ten years ago–has been cured.
Read more: Â http://www.contriving.net/link/c4
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A shockingly long list of actions the Canadian government has done to attack sci…
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on May 22, 2013
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A shockingly long list of actions the Canadian government has done to attack science.
It's almost as if I'm reading a list of anti-science governmental actions from the United States!
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The Canadian War on Science: A long, unexaggerated, devastating chronological indictment
This is a brief chronology of the current Conservative Canadian government’s long campaign to undermine evidence-based scientific, environmental and technical decision-making. It is a government that is beholden to big business, particularly big oil, and that makes every attempt to shape public policy to that end. It is a government that fundamentally doesn’t believe in…
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Posted by Dustin
on May 22, 2013
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