Triptych Cryptic

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Lost Time
I've never become a part of the giant Lost community online. I don't want to know spoilers and couldn't care less who fan nation thinks is cuter. I've also been avoiding most theories since I hope the show itself will be the best prestige. Yet, I couldn't resist peeking at this theory and this similarly time-centric theory.

Yeah, probably something like that. But what about the four toes? (Links via PopCandy.)

Labels: sci-fi, science, TV

08:24 bone daddy

Thursday, December 13, 2007

Cloned, glow in the dark cats. Y'know, in case you're hurting for Christmas gift ideas.

Labels: cryptozoology, non-monkey animals, science

23:18 bone daddy

Tuesday, December 04, 2007

Chimps beat college students in memory test. Not really fair inasmuchas the chimps probably weren't stoned.

Labels: monkeys, science

20:48 bone daddy

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

When we think of "survival of the fittest" we always think of biggest, meanest, strongest, etc., but it occurs to me when I read this article about giant, 8 feet long sea scorpions that the giant creature with the three foot claws is gone, but the horseshoe crab is still around in all its ugly, harmless glory. One scientist is quoted as saying he'd rather be in the water with a shark than a "eurypterid." Since it's not clear if the sea scorpions could swim or just crawl on the bottom like lobsters, I'd say that depends on 1) what kind of shark and 2) how deep the water is. (Link via Mrs. BoneDaddy)

Labels: cryptozoology, science, sharks

15:51 bone daddy

Friday, July 20, 2007

Q: Why Do the Super Wealthy Need Luxury Subs?
A:
The underwater fortress is vulnerable when it surfaces.

Labels: cartoons, rich people, science

11:44 c-dog

Monday, July 16, 2007

Not Dead Yet
Long beaked echidnas may still be scurrying around in Papuan forests.

Labels: non-monkey animals, science

09:55 c-dog

Friday, June 22, 2007

Nice Find
A 35,000 year old carving of a wooly mammoth. (No recent word on the success or failure of attempts to clone a wooly mammoth Jurassic Park stylee.)

Labels: non-monkey animals, science

07:57 c-dog

Friday, June 08, 2007

Weird Science

Labels: comics, science

22:36 c-dog

Saturday, April 21, 2007

KSR's Next
Stan reveals in a Locus interview that he's working on another historical novel ...

I've sold a book about the birth of science called The Galileans. It will have a science fiction element, but a strongly historical narrative as well. I researched the subject when I was writing The Years of Rice and Salt, which includes an alternative scientific revolution. Having done that, I thought, 'Well, what actually happened is fascinating.' So this new book is constellated about the figure of Galileo. Because he was famously put on trial by the Pope, he's still a good way to discuss the relationship between science and religion, and how those two can be reconciled (or not).

He also recommends a historical novelist I've never heard of: Cecelia Holland. If he thinks she's one of our greatest novelists, I'm intrigued.

Labels: Books, sci-fi, science

21:07 c-dog