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The Future Belongs to the Curious

The Future Belongs to the Curious

R. A. Lafferty, winner of the 2002 Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award Why did our jury of Robert Silverberg, Scott Edelman, Gardner Dozois, and John Clute select R. A. Lafferty for the 2002 Rediscovery Award? I speak of an eccentric author who, beginning in 1959—in his 40s, rather late to start a career in science fiction—went on to write more than 200 short stories, which were collected in at least 19 short story collections, and 21 novels. The first three of those novels appeared the same year, 1968—Past Master, The Reefs of Earth, and Space Chantey—the very first of those being nominated for both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. He was praised in the '60s by Roger Zelazny, Samuel R, Delany and Harlan Ellison, and embraced as part of the New Wave, but he was never part of any wave. (Read the full text of Scott Edelman's remarks at his website.) Frederick Pohl's Acceptance Speech: "Thank you, Scott. About R. "My brain reels," moaned Homer the man. His books at Amazon.com (Click on the title or the image of a book to go to Amazon. Nine Hundred Grandmothers The R.

Petite Annonce Gratuite | MEDION® AKOYA® P5324 E (MD 8195) Honda CB HORNET 600 de 2004 | Annonce Gratuite de MesAnnoncesGratuites - Mes-annonces-gratuites.fr [del.icio.us] Mike never liked being put in a box so he spent the last 20 years as an entrepreneur, investment banker, author, professor, speaker, angel investor and fundraiser for various charities. Currently, Mike is a Managing Partner at KrowdMentor, a strategic investment and advisory firm empowering blockchain startups, funds and entrepreneurs to reach their funding and liquidity goals. Mike is also the founder of the Blockchain Investors Consortium (BIC) and serves on the Advisory Board of Token-as-a-Service (TaaS), the first ever tokenized closed-end fund dedicated to investments in blockchain assets. Since 2011, Mike is a member of Tech Coast Angels (TCA), a network of 330 angel investors in Southern California who have invested $185 million in 300+ deals and raised over $1.5 billion from VCs. From 2000 to 2006, Mike served as founding CEO of Pioneer TeleCare, an e-commerce firm with total revenues of $4 million.

Every black hole contains a new universe: A physicist presents a solution to present-day cosmic mysteries Our universe may exist inside a black hole. This may sound strange, but it could actually be the best explanation of how the universe began, and what we observe today. It's a theory that has been explored over the past few decades by a small group of physicists including myself. Successful as it is, there are notable unsolved questions with the standard big bang theory, which suggests that the universe began as a seemingly impossible "singularity," an infinitely small point containing an infinitely high concentration of matter, expanding in size to what we observe today. But these theories leave major questions unresolved. The idea that our universe is entirely contained within a black hole provides answers to these problems and many more. The first is general relativity, the modern theory of gravity. The second is quantum mechanics, which describes the universe at the smallest scales, such as the level of the atom.

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Buffer Tweets from Twitter.com 987 Flares Filament.io 987 Flares × We have some more great news for you. Joel has just pushed the latest Buffer feature live. Please note that in it’s first version it will only work if you have the Chrome Extension for Buffer installed. 1.) It means that you can now add tweets to your Buffer right from inside Twitter.com. If you click it, it will allow you to do old school RTs , so others will see that you have retweeted them. 2.) Here is another little add-on so adding tweets to your Buffer is even simpler: 3.) Last but not least you can now open your Buffer box with a nifty keyboard shortcut whilst you are reading a page. That’s it, I hope you like these new little add-ons. PS: Chrome might take a little while to update automatically for you. Leo Widrich Co-founder and CMO at Buffer.

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