Parking dispute sparks shooting at Home Depot - Because we are all safer with more guns. Just ask the 30,000 people who are surely proud to die every year to satisfy the conservative fetish for Second Amendment absolutism.

A Biblical Guide to Debunking the Heterosexual Agenda - Yup. This. It’s the divinely inspired word of God, right? (Via ( Read more... )

A reader reviews my single title novella Love in the Time of Metal and Flesh - [This] is a kind of existential horror story. It has great power. I’m not sure it’s in any way entertaining, but it certainly provokes thought and, in these superficial times, that’s high praise.

Rune Charms for Warriors & for Peace - (Via Daily Idioms, Annotated.)

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Kids and Dogs - Read this all the way through. It only takes a minute, and the effort is worth it. (Via David Goldman.)

Want a Starship? Think Big. Think Really Big

Building Cars Out of Batteries Isn’t as Crazy as It Sounds

Japan’s Yankee genius, the greatest scientist you've never heard of - Ovshinsky created a hatful of world-changing ( Read more... )

The Evolutionary Case for Great Fiction - Might reading literature help with species survival? (Via AH.)

Once-lost Star Wars-related short to screen for the first time in 33 years - How a college script debuted before Empire, went MIA, and revived as Jedi hits 30.

U.S. cancer-care delivery is 'in crisis': report - Cancer treatment has grown so ( Read more... )

Some Lists Apropos of Nothing - Related to book discovery and social media.

The Wunder Project - Raising money to beat colon cancer. Um, yes. (Via Jo Maurer.)

Thoughts on being broken - ( Read more... )

"The Stars Do Not Lie" - My Nebula-nominated novella is now online at the Asimov's Web site.

Fantasy Fans: Where’s Your Outrage? - N.K. Jemisin on the Oscars and Quvenzhané Wallis.

Fifty Shades of Brains - Sex. Zombies. Really annoying present tense narration. (Via a friend who almost certainly wishes to remain anonymous.)

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SMBC on the perils of editing - Hahaha.

I Am Not a Camel … but I Do Have Epilepsy - On disease, treatment and medical stigmatization. (Via David Goldman.)

Pad Thai - The odd history of a favorite dish. (Via Daily Idioms, Annotated.)

Abandoned - National Geographic television on treasure hunting in abandoned properties. Some cool stuff here. (Via ( Read more... )

In praise of … roquefort - Just in time for Christmas comes news the cheese harbours anti-inflammatories that work wonders for the heart. Mmm. (Via Scrivener's Error, among others.)

Megapiranha, Prehistoric Piranha, May Have Had Strongest Bite Ever - 1.3 meter long piranha? Wow…

Hawaiian Islands 'dissolving from within' - Oh noes Runa away!

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Has Fiction Lost Its Faith? - Sort of weird reading this critique of religion in fiction from my perspective.

The 13 Dwarves In The Hobbit, Ranked By Hotness - Uhh...

Hammerspace - Hammerspace (also known as malletspace) is a fan-envisioned extradimensional, instantly accessible storage area in fiction, which is used to explain how animated, ( Read more... )

Green and Kalimpura Sweepstakes! - Tor.com celebrates my forthcoming book release.

An ABC proof too tough even for mathematicians - In Kyoto, a solitary thinker unveils a solution that’s either a dizzying advance - or a blind alley. Outsiders in? (Snurched from Daily Idioms, Annotated.)

A Shape-Shifting Smartphone Touch Screen - A microfluidic ( Read more... )