I want to thank pro-blog reviews for giving boldygo.org a positive review. Your aide in helping people find this fledgling site is appreciated.
The review can be viewed here: http://pro-blogreviews.blogspot.com/2008/03/boldly-go.html
It’s hard to be more impressed with 365 Tomorrows than I am of it. The site presents what is calls flash fiction, short stories of 600 words or less, on a daily basis. They also regularly podcast and encourage submissions of original stories. There can never be enough speculative fiction on the market, especially if it’s free.
1. Sci-Fi as Philosophy: Clive Thompson shares the same sentiment that inspired this blog.
2. Rediscovering RNA: Brushed aside as only playing a support role to DNA, scientists are revisiting RNA and how it affects mutations.
3. 1901 and Beyond: HG Wells as futurist.
4. Twilight of the book?: Is literacy on its way out? I think this report is greatly exaggerated.
5. Native Science Fiction Minds: William Gibson comments on Cloverfield, and the screenwriters’ gaffe.
6. Pop Science Reporting: Mark Liberman on Michael Crichton’s commentary on sloppy science reporting.
1. Nanohazard warning symbol contest (via Boing Boing): While some look good, Anders Sandberg distinguishes between nanoparticle, nanodevice, and self-replicating device threats.
2. Creating synthetic life (via Boing Boing): Are patents on synthetic cells more justified than those on discovered genes?
3. Intelligent amoebas (via Unqualified Offerings): Intelligence might be a strong word, but there are signs of learned behavior.
4. Magnetic sense (Warning! Potentially disturbing images): Add a new sense through implanted magnets, which allows you to detect magnetic fields and electrical currents.
5. Smell, the suppressed sense: Americans try to suppress natural scents; could this trend turn around?
6. Morals and evolution: Modern society might require that we overcome aspects of a moral sense instilled by evolution.
7. Innovation and regulation: Businesses respond to regulation with innovation, but what innovation could have occurred if incentives weren’t redirected in this manner?
8. Revisiting the Turing test: If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s a duck (despite its positronic brain and servo motors).
