Category Archives: Science
Future Tech & Plot Bunnies
This is going to be super quick – I forgot I was going to be in a hotel room this morning, prior to going to an NHL hockey game (my first live playoff game). Last week on Facebook, I came across these links (and I can’t for the life of me remember who posted them […]
Aliens who are what they eat
When creating aliens, I look for inspiration right here on Earth. I just celebrated my “Don’t Panic” birthday (42) this month, and I’m still discovering new and weird animals to inspire me. This isn’t a recent scientific article, but it’s new to me. The Elysia chlorotica is therein described as a “lurid green sea slug” […]
When Science meets Cthulhu
I think I promised you another nonsense blog, right? I’m still on a crazy deadline, although I did manage to make the move across the country (cat as carry-on & all) with only minor mishaps. Thanks to my lovely husband, who found this link for my blog, ensuring I could devote more time to my […]
Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar – Coming 2014
“A heroic interstellar voyage to the furthest reaches of our scientific understanding.” Intrigued yet? Christopher Nolan, of Inception and Dark Knight fame, recently revealed that his next project is the sci-fi film, Interstellar (previously set to be directed by Steven Spielberg.)All we know so far is that Matthew McConaughey is set to star and the movie […]
Einstein and Pizza π
Albert Einstein was born March 14, 1879, 134 years ago. (Oh! Rearrange those numbers and what do ya got?) With such an auspicious birthday, 3.14, he went on to help develop the atomic bomb, the theory of relativity, and received the Nobel Peace Prize. I wonder. When he worked on all those equations in his mountains […]
Space Age Clothing
It’s blog day again! I’m in trouble! Between trying to finish my manuscript (supposed to be 40K, is now 57K and NOT DONE YET) and dealing with… ugh, so many problems related to the sale of our house, I’m slowly losing my mind. Just when I was starting to panic, though, I saw this link […]
Science Fiction Stuff I Am SO Ready For
It’s been an amazing run, over the last hundred years or so, of inventions and technological advancements. Even so, there are a few things I am impatiently awaiting. 1. The Teleporter: It’s amazingly difficult to get my kids off to school on the bus every morning. One refuses to wear winter gear even in the […]
DNA tracking is now. Not the future.
If you read or write dystopian fiction, you may have considered whether or not big brother is watching. Or rather, what might happen in the future if we really did have a world-wide breakdown and the government became oppressive in all the evil, totalitarian ways of nightmares. Well, not to add to the paranoia of […]
Spot the Future
When Anah was a kid at camp, she used to go out at night with her friends and search the sky for satellites. Far up north in Canada, there were a few that looped low enough to be seen as silver streaks moving through the night. Several years ago, Dianne went to an Iridium Watch […]
Unseen Mars
My current book might have something to do with Mars…so when this opportunity popped up on the BBC this week, it sucked me straight in. Mapping Mars with images no one has ever seen before. Planet Four offers up images of the red planet for you to classify. It entails looking at sections of the […]
