May 2012
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“Science is primarily an investigation of our place of the Universe — the place...”
– John Gribbin’s 1997 meditation from the introduction to Almost Everyone’s Guide to Science: The Universe, Life and Everything (via fieldnotesbiologyculture)
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“History is full of people who out of fear or ignorance or the lust for power...”
– Carl Sagan, Cosmos
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Space X launches first mission to the... →
Posted: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 7:29 am | Updated: 10:07 am, Tue May 22, 2012.
By MARY ALYS CHERRY, mcherry@hcnonline.com
A new era in space exploration began early Tuesday as SpaceX successfully launched the Falcon 9 rocket at 3:44 a.m. EDT at Kennedy Space Center.
The launch — the first by a private company — was the second try this week after a glitch in one motor halted...
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“Why shouldn’t truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to...”
– Mark Twain
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“I Sold My NaNoWriMo Novel!” A Q&A with Marissa... →
Interview with author of CINDER:
We are thrilled to introduce Marissa Meyer, long-time Wrimo and YA fiction writer, who joins us to talk about her debut novel, Cinder, which came out in January from Feiwel & Friends, an imprint of Macmillan.
Can you tell us a bit about Cinder?
Of course! Cinder is a retelling of the classic Cinderella story, but with a science-fiction twist. Our...
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“Cyborg writing must not be about the Fall, the imagination of a once-upon-a-time...”
– Donna J. Haraway
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“Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole...”
– Ray Bradbury
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“Cyborg writing must not be about the Fall, the imagination of a once-upon-a-time...”
– Donna J. Haraway
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“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives...”
– George R.R. Martin, A Dance With Dragons (via samaralex)
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