I recently bought and read Samuel R. Delany's The Jewel-Hinged Jaw for the first time, since I wasn't aware it had been reprinted by Wesleyan (way back in 2009) until Patrick Nielsen Hayden mentioned it to me at Viable Paradise this year. Those of you who are longtime readers will know that I have a great deal of respect for Mr. Delany's critical ( Read more... )

Via discourse.net, a reasearcher who published a paper in Science claiming that bombarding a solvent with neutrons and sound waves produced tiny bubbles that triggered nuclear fusion reactions has been vindicated by another researcher replicating his findings. Purdue University began investigating Rusi Taleyarkhan for academic misconduct in March ( Read more... )