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The Best Time Travel Stories of the 20th Century: Stories by Arthur C. Clarke, Jack Finney, Joe Haldeman, Ursula K. Le Guin, As in most collections of short stories, there are good ones, bad ones, indifferent ones, and plain odd ones. A time-travel addict, I managed to find some rewarding tales here, and my favourites were: Henry Kuttner's "TIME LOCKER". Jack Finney's "I'M SCARED", which contained interesting mini-tales within it. Coilhouse “Alternative subcultures. They were a crucial aspect of industrial civilization in the two previous centuries. They were where industrial civilization went to dream. A sort of unconscious R&D, exploring alternative social strategies … but they became extinct.” “Extinct?”“We started picking them before they could ripen.
Big Book of Apple Hacks The Big Book of Apple Hacks is indeed big. Chris Seibold (a senior writer at the Apple Matters web site) collected (with the assistant of 27 contributors) 131 hacks (and many sidebar "mini-hacks") and logically organized them into 15 chapters. The hacks range from simple software code changes to get-out-the-soldering-iron hardware mods. But all the hacks are interesting and most are useful. Bean sprouts: the strange trend taking over China Over the last few years, we’ve seen a lot of weird fashion trends emerge on the internet. First there was normcore (coined by K-HOLE), which, technically speaking, was aggressively generic as opposed to weird. Then there was bonnetcore, the phenomenon of Brooklynites wearing bonnets (identified by Paper magazine). And more recently, there’s been bagcore – Taiwanese women wearing carrier bags (yep, we coined that shit). Now? Hailing from China, the latest strange trend to take the web by storm is sproutcore – bean sprout hair clips.
Explore, Play, Discover: Websites & Activities Search form Search Low-cost, teacher-tested activities for the classroom and the curious. Science of Cooking • Explore the science behind food and cooking with recipes, activities, and Webcasts.PreviousNext Explore, Play, Discover: Websites, Activities, and More Handbook for Academic Authors: Beth Luey: 洋書 This is a useful book, although I think that the title is somewhat misleading. The book covers a very specific topic: the many details of submitting and publishing an academic book. It does not cover writing for peer-review journals and thus will be rather unhelpful for the academics in fields where articles rather than books are the royal road to tenure. What Luey covers, however, she covers very well.
Home Liz Else, CultureLab editor Nothing is off limits for CultureLab. We've loved neuroaesthetics, the art of synthetic biology, strangeness in suburbia, Turing musicals - in fact, just about everything in that fabulous place where books, arts and science intersect. That won't change as we move closer into the New Scientist fold. 2nd Edition of the Theory and Practice of Online Learning I am pleased to announce the 2nd edition of the edited text Theory and Practice of Online Learning. As the first edition, this one is available in paper copy ($39.95 Canadian) and in PDF for open access download. This is one of the first 6 books produced by the newly launched Athabasca University Press which bills itself as Canada’s first Open Access Press. The 2nd edition is licensed under a Creative commons, attribute, no commercial and no derivative license.
aCurator Marc Yankus is a photographer and graphic artist. In his latest body of work, "The Space Between," he presents New York's architecture in an imaginary, yet hyper-real way. Marc sees things differently; we talked about him having almost synesthesic moments as he walks around New York. His photographs are a result of his vision and precise post-production, and invoke a nostalgia that on the whole, New York has no time for (though I believe the new mayor is being lobbied to create a listed buildings register for those over 75 years old.) He adds more depth by layering images over antique textured paper. "I'm drawn to the majestic details and materials of classical historical buildings, many of which are hidden from view, tucked behind new architecture.
Twelve Sharp (Stephanie Plum Novels): Janet Evanovich: 洋書 There's no denying that the Stephanie Plum books are a humorous, light read. However, I'm amazed at the repetitious nature of each book. If you're a fan of the series, think through previous books and tell me if they don't all include the following plot lines: (Plot Line 1): Stephanie attends at least one dinner at her parent's house in which: a) Grandma Mazur makes an off-color reference about something sexual in nature; b) Grandma Mazur tells the family of her plans to attend a funeral; c) Stephanie's dad grunts or rolls his eyes at Grandma Mazur but doesn't say much else; d) Stephanie's mother begs her to keep an eye on Grandma Mazur at the aforementioned funeral; or, e) all of the above. (Plot Line 2): Grandma Mazur attends at least one funeral and attempts to open the lid of a casket.
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