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Buy this paragraph for $838.25
I feel my leg being pulled, but The Avocado Papers is selling nonexclusive rights to canned opening paragraphs for $1.75 a word. The shortest is $122.50, pricey enough to motivate even the most blocked novelist to warm up with a few word-association exercises. The grafs they’ve posted are just... Read more...
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Friday Free Fiction for 18th July
There’s something I want to know about Fridays - how do they always come round so quickly, even though the week seems interminably long? But before you ponder that poser, get stuck into this week’s selection of free online fiction… *** Just a brace from ManyBooks.net: From The Hands of... Read more...
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Fiction submissions closed temporarily
Well, it looks like the migration is complete, though the RSS feed seems to be lagging a bit - I expect it’ll all settle down soon. I’m hoping you’ll notice greater reliability and uptime from Futurismic at its new home! So, the regular contact form is active again for your tips and... Read more...
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The next revolution in social policy
The reliably interesting Daniel Finkelstein has a good article on what he sees as a social psychology revolution developing via the collision of the two disciplines of evolutionary psychology and behavioural economics. From the article: Yet the integration of the academic work on human behaviour... Read more...
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Mosquitos, AIDS and Africa
Dengue fever is one of the most common insect-borne viral infections known to medical science, and people in areas where it is prevalent are advised to take precautions to avoid mosquito bites by whatever means necessary, in parallel with programs aimed at reducing the number of mosquitoes.... Read more...
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Using salmonella to administer vaccines
A team of researchers has engineered a live form of salmonella that can deliver a vaccine. The modified bacterium eliminates all the things you don’t want in salmonella, the leading cause of food-borne illness. It’s also designed to destroy itself so that it’s not released into the... Read more...
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Listening to the Grays
Mac Tonnies has been thinking about aliens - the Grays. What if they represent a sort of tangible psychosomatic feedback from our own distant future? (more…) Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 Tags: Aliens • collective unconscious • grays • Loving The... Read more...
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Possible downtime and weirdness ahead
Greetings, Futurismic readers! Just a quick heads-up - we’re in the process of migrating hosts again, which means that DNS changes are a-propagating as we speak. Hosting being the brick-wall nightmare that it is, there’s more than a chance that things may go slightly awry, and Futurismic may... Read more...
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Outquistion of The Future
At the WorldChanging blog, Alex Steffen has posted an article that could be the seed of half a dozen sf stories. He talked with novelist/activist Cory Doctorow about a number of topics, foremost among them the social and economic changes facing America in the future: We were talking about the... Read more...
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White elephants… IN SPACE!
Suggestions for what exactly to do with the International Space Station are always welcome. Michael Benson, writing in The Washington Post suggests sending it to the Moon: The ISS, you see, is already an interplanetary spacecraft â€" at least potentially. It’s missing a drive system and a... Read more...
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Bruce Sterling interview: is the shine off steampunk as a literary genre?
Regular readers will be aware of my status as a card-carrying fanboy for Commandant Bruce Sterling. It is in that capacity that I’m very pleased to report that the British Science Fiction Association’s online media magazine, Matrix, has an interview with Sterling wherein he talks about The... Read more...
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Maybe Neanderthals could speak after all
Anthropologists have long disagreed on the timing of the emergence of language in our hominid ancestors, and the results of recent research may reignite that debate. CT scans of a 530,000-year-old Homo heidelbergensis skull show that its ear canals are sensitive at 2kHz to 4kHz - the same crucial... Read more...
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