• WINNERS: 2011 Nebula Awards

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  • Sunday Cinema: Flatland (2007)

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  • Heinlein’s Short Story “All You Zombies” Heads to the Big Screen!

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  • VIDEO: *This* is Why Neil Gaiman is a Rock Star (#MustSee)

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  • Free SF/F/H Fiction for 5/19/2012

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  • SF Tidbits for 5/19/12

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  • NOW AVAILABLE: The 2012 Hugo Voter Packet!

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  • 20 Things You Didn't Know About... Allergies | DISCOVER Magazine

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  • Friday YouTube: “Gilligan’s Planet” Intro

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  • TOC: ‘The Future Is Japanese’ Edited by Haikasoru

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  • Daniel Abraham Adapts “A Game of Thrones”

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  • The SF Signal Podcast (Episode 126): An Interview with Author Robert McCammon

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  • TOC: Electric Velocipede, Issue #24 Edited by John Klima

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  • Science Fiction Gets Social (Part 2)

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  • Trailer: Revolution

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  • Paranormal Circumstances: One Influential Scientist's Quixotic Mission to Prove ESP Exists | DISCOVER Magazine

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  • Big Idea: Physicists Carve a Niche in Time | DISCOVER Magazine

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  • Hot Science: Real-World Technology That Approaches "The Avengers" | DISCOVER Magazine

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    After a series of solo adventures, Marvel’s greatest superheroes will finally join forces on the big screen this Friday, May 4. In anticipation of the Avengers’ suiting up to save the day, we took a look at how today’s technology stacks up against the best weapons wielded by our favorite superhumans. Iron Man
Super Tech: A bespoke high-tech exoskeleton not only protects billionaire Tony Stark from supervillains, it also lets him fly faster than the speed of sound, lift up to 100 tons, and confirm dinner reservations through his AI assistant. Real-World Tech: U.S. soldiers may soon have robotic exoskeletons of their own. Defense giant Lockheed Martin’s model, now in testing, supports soldiers as they run at speeds of up to 10 miles per hour while carrying 200 extra pounds. Captain America
Super Tech: The Captain’s shield, made of an alloy with the alien metal vibranium, absorbs kinetic energy—so the strain of battle only makes it stronger. Real-World Tech: Scientists have yet to find a material that gets tougher from taking a hit. But in 2011 researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab unveiled the strongest, toughest substance ever: a microalloy of glass and the rare metal palladium...

  • May 7th, Physics of the Future Lecture with Dr. Michio Kaku (New York Society for Ethical Culture in Manhattan, NY)

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    Dr. Kaku will lecture on his book Physics of the Future on Monday, May 7th at the New York Society for Ethical Culture in Manhattan. The lecture will explore what’s possible in medicine, biotech, artificial intelligence, space travel, computers, nanotech, and also jobs and the economy. Link to purchase tickets at: wbai.org; Call for Info at [...]

  • E. Coli That Cause Urinary Tract Infections are Now Resistant to Antibiotics | 80beats

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    . Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Wash , Catalyze , Rinse , Repeat : Getting Filth-Munching Enzymes to Stick Around Weight of the World : The Ongoing Fight Over How to Define the Kilogram E . Coli That Cause Urinary Tract Infections are Now Resistant to Antibiotics Thanks to antibiotics , we tend to think of urinary tract infections as no big deal . Pop some cipro , and you’re done . A good thing , too—if the E . coli that usually cause UTIs crawl up the urinary tract , they can cause kidney failure and fatal blood poisoning But antibiotics may not be saving us from UTIs for very much longer . Scientists

  • Is Einstein's Greatest Work All Wrong—Because He Didn't Go Far Enough? | DISCOVER Magazine

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    Julian Barbour cuts an unlikely figure for a radical. We sip afternoon tea at his farmhouse in the sleepy English village of South Newington, and he playfully quotes Faust: That I may understand whatever binds the world’s innermost core together, see all its workings, and its seeds. His love of Goethe’s classic poem, about a scholar who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for unlimited knowledge, is apropos. Forty years ago, Barbour’s desire to uncover the innermost workings of the universe led him to make a seemingly reckless gamble. He sacrificed a secure and potentially prestigious career as an academic to strike out on independent research of his own. His starry-eyed quest: upending Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity, and with it our understanding of gravity, space, and time. It was less than a century ago that Einstein was the most radical physics thinker around. With his general theory of relativity, he discarded the traditional notion of space and time as fixed and redefined them as flexible dimensions woven together to create a four-dimensional fabric that pervades the universe. In Einstein’s vision, this stretchy version of space-time is the source of gravity. The fabric bends and warps severely around massive objects such as the sun, drawing smaller objects such as planets toward them. The force that we perceive as gravity is the result. Yet Einstein’s fabric left a few loose threads that cosmologists have struggled to tie up ever since. For one, general relativity alone cannot explain the observed motions of galaxies or the way the universe seems to expand. If Einstein’s model of gravity is correct, around 96 percent of the cosmos appears to be missing. To make up the difference, cosmologists have posited two mysterious, invisible, and as yet unidentified ingredients: dark matter and dark energy, a double budget deficit that makes many scientists uncomfortable. Einstein also failed to deliver an all-encompassing theory of “quantum gravity”—one that reconciled the laws of gravity observed on the scale of stars and galaxies with the laws of quantum mechanics, the branch of physics that explains the behavior of particles in the subatomic realm. While other scientists tread softly around the edges of Einstein’s theory, hoping to tweak it into compliance, Barbour and a growing cadre of collaborators see a need for a bold march forward. They aim to demolish the space-time fabric that stands as Einstein’s legacy and remap the universe without it. This new cosmic code could eliminate the need to invoke dark matter and dark energy. Even more exciting, it could also open the door to the theory of quantum gravity that Einstein was never able to derive. If Barbour is right, some of the most fundamental things cosmologists think they know about the origin and evolution of the universe would have to be revised... Image: Galaxy cluster Abell 1689 seems to be held together by swaths of unseen dark matter; blue shows its theoretically inferred location. But could dark matter be an illusion? Courtesy of NASA

  • A Universe from Nothing? | Cosmic Variance

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    Some of you may have been following a tiny brouhaha (“kerfuffle” is so overused, don’t you think?) that has sprung up around the question of why the universe exists. You can’t say we think small around here. First Lawrence Krauss came out with a new book, A Universe From Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather [...]

  • Europe Preparing for Most Detailed Examination of the Sun to Date (The Takeaway Radio Interview)

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    The European Space Agency this week is expected to begin formal and final preparations to launch the Solar Orbiter space probe, which will be launched toward the sun in about five years, orbiting within the orbit of Mercury. It’ll be the closest trip to the sun by any Earth-launched space probe and is expected to [...]

  • (ABC News: Good Morning America) James Cameron, Google Executives, Billionaires to Mine for Asteroids?

    Updated: 2012-04-28 06:10:39
    ABCNews.com: Film director James Cameron, Google’s Larry Page and Eric Schmidt, X Prize founder Peter Diamandis and billionaire Ross Perot Jr. along with a number of other incredible minds plan to take on outer space. Just what they’re up to is still a mystery but they’ve announced that they’re forming a new “space exploration company to [...]

  • PCMag.com Q&A with Dr. Kaku — Where Are Our Flying Cars?

    Updated: 2012-04-28 05:13:29
    After some 80 years of empty promises, faulty predictions, countless science fiction films and comic books, and a rather famous animated TV series from the 1960s, Terrafugia may be the first company to develop and produce an actual flying car. Never mind that it costs $279,000 for now—the point is that it exists, and that [...]

  • #35: S05E02 The Real Thing

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    Wow. No spoilers in the description, but the shockers continue in this final season of Eureka. We discuss this week’s, um, big change. We talk about what “dark” means in Eureka vs. other SyFy series, like BSG. And we express our eternal love for Felicia Day. We’re gonna go watch some Flog now. Or The [...]

  • Saints + Sinners: Satellite Crashers, Alien-Hunter Funders | DISCOVER Magazine

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  • The WSJ Weekend Interview with Michio Kaku — Captain Michio and the World of Tomorrow

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    The Wall Street Journal - The Weekend Interview (A version of this article appeared March 10, 2012, on page A11 in some U.S. editions of The Wall Street Journal, with the headline: Captain Michio and the World of Tomorrow: Humans are born with the curiosity of scientists but switch to investment banking by Brian Bolduc [...]

  • Physics of the Future Speaking Event: April 5th @ the Chattanooga State Technical Community College (RSVP NOW)

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    The Chattanooga State Technical Community College’s President’s Lectures Series will be hosting a Physics of the Future Speaking Engagement with Michio Kaku — This Thursday on April 5th @ 6pm (Location: GYM) Please RSVP for the Event @ http://www.chattanoogastate.edu/kaku/ View the Campus Map @ http://www.pointsmap.com/chattstatecampus/?pid=5740

  • Choosing a Business Smartphone

    Updated: 2012-02-28 07:13:05
    Choosing the best smartphone for business requires a great deal of consideration. A business owner will want to choose a device that enhances his or her productivity. An owner should be able to complete a majority of the same tasks on the smartphone as he or she can complete on a desktop terminal. The key [...]

  • Doubleday Books Facebook Sweepstakes (Win Two Books About the Hidden Designs of Our World)

    Updated: 2012-02-02 05:46:35
    Doubleday Books has launched a contest on their Facebook Fanpage for the opportunity to win two books about the hidden designs of our world. The details are simple: Become a Fan of the Doubleday Books fanpage by Clicking LIKE and Enter the Sweepstakes on the landing page. Only persons residing in United States who are at [...]

  • 2012 Paperback Book Tour Dates & Locations for Physics of the Future: How Science will Change Daily Life by 2100

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    Tuesday, February 21 Albany, NY – New York State Writer’s Institute Venue: Campus Center Ballroom Time: 8:00pm 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 12222 Wednesday, February 22 Louisville, KY – Kentucky Author Forum Venue: Kentucky Author Forum Time: tk 624 West Main, Second Floor, Louisville, Kentucky 40202 Thursday, February 23 Berkeley, CA –  First Congregational Church of Berkeley Venue: First Congregational Church of Berkeley Time: tk 2345 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA Friday, February [...]

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