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Baldassare Castiglione is your noble of the day. He’s also one of those charming renaissance men. He wrote a book called The Courtier. An interesting quote:

The courtier must be; noble, skilled at war, a good dancer, an excellent conversationalist, moderate at all times, graceful ( Read more... )

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This is possibly the most important discovery in biology since DNA itself. In very short it may give us some of the answers to why genetic variation within and between species can create so many similarities and differences. For example the black fur in canines is believed to ( Read more... )

The/a first "earth like' planet has been confirmed (at least as well as can be done without a visit). It's just about twenty light years away. So assuming reasonable comfort to get their and that you could take say 125lbs of cargo with you.

Would you go? What would you take?

I'd go, even if it were going to be three or four generations before ( Read more... )

Two weeks ago it was Irene Radford, last week it was James Enge with the announcements. This week, as he broke through his Facebook Fan Page it is Dave Freer's davefreer turn.

The vital statistics: Two books to Pyr. A new steampunk universe called The Drowned Empire. The first entitled Cuttlefish follows the events of a submarine crew.

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So, what do we think of the possibility, or probability of the current human species being the launch pad for a concurrent race of genetically distinct sentients?

In an undisturbed natural state it takes isolation, time and differences in social behaviors for species to emerge. Theoretically, with the way humans are able to isolate themselves ( Read more... )

Love how strange ( Read more... )

Today we feed the brain ( Read more... )