Now the Hugos have been awarded at Denvention, it's time for the annual moaning about the ageing of science fiction. Using nhw's data, I graphed the birth dates of Hugo and Nebula winners before, and I've graphed the median ages here:

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I read this BBC news article saying "The average UK person will this year have a greater income than their US counterpart for the first time since the 19th Century, figures suggest." Now this may be true, but I would point out that "GDP divided by population" is not the same as "The income of the average person". The first is the mean, the second ( Read more... )

With the ESA satellite COROT nearing its first 300 days in orbit, I hear that a truckload of new extrasolar planets are due to be announced to the world soon. These detections will be based on planetary transits, which means this may be the last time my graph of exoplanets detected by doppler spectroscopy (based on data from exoplanet.eu) represent ( Read more... )

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