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Tweet I saw this on Reddit today and it struck me as a great idea. So I thought I’d share it. Health care professionals in Australia are talking about a coming epidemic of preventable diseases – like polio and measles – which kill and maim children (and unvaccinated adults). It’s all because a bunch of [...] Tweet On 31st October 2011, according to the UN, the world’s population reached 7 billion. They may be wrong. These things are hard to estimate. But, if they are, it is only by a year or two. Most of those people have arrived since I was born. The BBC has a cute calculator that shows [...] Tweet I just read about a Russian “tycoon” called Dimitry Itskov who is putting money into a venture called Initiative 2045, “a non-profit organization focused on creating an international research center where scientists will research and develop the technologies to make eternal life possible,” according to nextbigfuture.com. Apart from the tragic news that people still [...] Tweet I’ve been interviewed a few times now. That part of my life and thoughts which pertains to writing has been explored beyond all relation to its importance or interest. It’s as if a group of botanists descends on my back yard to study it, mark out a square metre of ground and then pore [...] Tweet He was better than average too. I came across the Duning-Kruger effect in a series of tweets by an amusing fellow called @GodlessAtheist who argued that it is the reason why religious people are so smug. I don’t doubt that this is true. (Have you ever heard a religious type arguing any scientific [...] Tweet People who come here often may remember my definition of science fiction, viz. Science fiction is a genre in which it is considered true that only reason and the assumption that the physical world is the only one that exists, can explain the universe, and in which the story typically but not necessarily, features [...] Tweet Aaaarghhh! Tagged! I usually avoid these meme things like the plague they are, but when Meryl asks, how can a guy say no? Also, she caught me just after I’d finished revising my latest novel, and I’m dying to tell people about it. What is the working title of your novel? Heaven is a [...] Tweet I can’t help it, I agonise over the meanings of things. I’m a discriminator; a differentiator. I like to categorise. Take “science fiction” (oh stop groaning, you went to the trouble of clicking the link, you might as well listen to what I have to say). It’s a term that arose in the mists [...] Tweet Worldbuilding is one of the essential skills of a science fiction or fantasy writer. I’d go so far as to say it separates the greats in these genres from the mediocre. It is also the arena in which the writer is required to exercise their imagination to its fullest, or else leave the reader [...] |
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