June 2012
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May 2012
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I've spent so many years building up various... →
Great blog entry by @auntbeast, Caitlin R. Kiernan. Where does nature begin and artifice end? Or is it all artifice? What do you think?
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Neal Stephenson on "Innovation Starvation" →
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Your support, and how to get “The 12 Burning...
Lately some of you have been asking me recently about my 2010 book of short stories, “The 12 Burning Wheels.” Yes, I wrote this short collection in 2009, and M Brane SF published it as a book and and e-book. When it was published, I promoted the book pretty heavily, and I think it’s worth doing so again. This book features stories involving forgotten Greek witches, designer cannibalistic products,...
Robert Reich: Why the Economy is Heading for a... →
via robertreich:
We’ll know more tomorrow when the jobs report is announced, but today’s report on America’s massive service sector – which make up about 90 percent of the economy – is sobering to say the least.
The Institute of Supply Management’s non-manufacturing index fell to a four-month low in April (53.5,…
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April 2012
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Neal Stephenson on Science Fiction, Building... →
unexpectedtech:
Speaking before a packed lecture theater at MIT yesterday, Neal Stephenson worried that the gloomy outlook prevalent in modern science fiction may be undermining the genre’s ability to inspire engineers and scientists. Describing himself as a “pessimist trying to turn himself into an optimist,” and acknowledging that some of his own work has contributed to the dystopian trend, he...
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Good socialization is a prerequisite for life online, not an effect of it, he...
– Why Are So Many Americans Single? : The New Yorker