Amy Peterson is a von Neumann machine, a self-replicating humanoid robot ( Read more... )

If you have a Kindle, and enjoy science-fiction, do yourself a favour and get Hugh Howey's "Wool Omnibus" right now. It's been months - possibly years - since I've been so absorbed by a novel.

This entry was originally posted at http://the-grynne.dreamwidth.org/973333.html and has
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I was listening to Leonard Susskind's talk The World as a Hologram" on my iPhone while on the train a couple of weeks ago. Most of it went over my head, but one phrase that really caught my attention was the theoretical "indestructibility of information": information is never lost or destroyed, although it can be "lost" in the sense that we no ( Read more... )

I've been listening to two podcasts on my iPod the last couple of days, mainly while cooking and commuting. Both interesting in their way:

1. Alan Watt's lectures on Eastern Philosophy (Taoist Way)
2. Courtney Brown's Science Fiction and Politics seminars ( Read more... )

This week (July 27 to August 2) is International Blog Against Racism week! Learn about how you can participate and read blog entries from past IBARWs here.


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Strange Horizons' Abigail Nussbaum on the Battlestar Galactica finale (thanks to baleanoptera for the link):

'Far worse to my mind than Galactica's ending being anti-science is the fact that it is anti-science fiction. Science fiction is the literature of change. It's about imagining the future--which things get better, which get worse, which stay the same; ( Read more... )

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Human beings make a strange fauna and flora. From a distance they appear negligible; up close they are apt to appear ugly and malicious. More than anything they need to be surrounded with sufficient space - space even more than time.

- Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

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Sam J. Miller's essay comparing Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica:
Star Trek ( Read more... )