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Subruncinator - (Via Daily Idioms, Annotated.)

Neanderthals Could Talk Like Humans, Bone Reveals

Massive Lake Found Under Greenland Ice - It wasn’t me, I swear.

Study: Fall of the Soviet Union may have saved the Arctic

Billion-dollar climate denial network exposed - A network of 91 think tanks and industry groups are primarily responsible. One ( Read more... )

In which our collaborate novel Our Lady of the Islands, written by me and Shannon Page, finds a home

Jade par Jay Lake - A French review of the French translation of my book Green. Some complaints, but I interpret the Google Translate version as generally positive.

Textopornographie: France creates its own word for 'sexting' - Of course they did ( Read more... )

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Tolkien - Daniel Larison is very unhappy with Peter Jackson. I pretty much agree with his points, though I am perhaps less vociferous in my articulation thereof.

Literary self-loathing: How Jonathan Franzen, Elizabeth Gilbert and more keep it at bay - Really? Yeah, maybe for them, but I’m with Scalzi on this one. ( Read more... )

In the past week, I have managed to see both Frozen [  imdb ] and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug [  imdb ].

My capsule reviews...

Frozen: Does for Nordic culture what Brave did for Celtic culture.

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug: The Starship Troopers of fantasy movies. A feature film made from 2.5 chapters of a completely different book ( Read more... )

Nelson Mandela, hero of South Africa, dies at 95 - Sic transit gloria mundi.

United States, Israel opposed Mandela, supported Apartheid - The attempt to make Nelson Mandela respectable is an ongoing effort of Western government spokesmen and the Western media. He wasn’t respectable in the business circles of twentieth-century New York or Atlanta, ( Read more... )

Heroines in an ancient film called the flame of the west - How it all looks lately from the point of view of Lisa Costello.

How I Thank God - ( Read more... )

FDA orders personal genetics company 23andMe to stop selling tests - Claims company ignored repeated efforts to get safety data and approval. Hmmm.

Mushrooms 'Make Wind' to Spread Spores - Fungus farts? Really?

How cool is the airplane of the future? - I miss the stratoliner.

Redefining the habitable zone: where should we look for life? - Desert ( Read more... )

Milo Fowler is giving away a personalized copy of my new novella from Prime Books, Love in the Time of Metal and Flesh

Famous Novelists on Symbolism in Their Work and Whether It Was Intentional - Boy, do I have a lot to say about this. (Via Beverly Block.)

You, Me, and Every Word We Know - Ta-Nehisi Coates on the languages of labeling, in-groups ( Read more... )

How doctors die - When it comes to dying, doctors, of course, are ultimately no different from the rest of us. And their emotional and physical struggles are surely every bit as wrenching. But they have a clear advantage over many of us. They have seen death up close. They understand their choices, and they have access to the best that medicine has ( Read more... )