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Is there anybody out there?*
From the opening pages of Communion of Dreams: Jon sat there for a moment, trying to digest what Seth said. According to what pretty much everyone thought, it wasn’t possible. SETI, OSETI, META and...
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A process of discovery.
Got a couple of new reviews of Communion of Dreams over the weekend. Both are short enough to just post the whole thing. Here’s the first: Hard to believe this is a first novel…, January 3, 2015 By...
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“Uh, he’s already got one, you see.”
Happy 25th Anniversary to the Hubble Space Telescope, which has rightly been called one of the most important scientific tools in human history. It has brought the cosmos closer to us, just as it has...
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Having artists and writers involved in space research and planning? What will...
A good friend (and fan of Communion of Dreams), passed along an article which made me chuckle. Here’s an excerpt: Earlier this month, the White House’s Office of Science and Technology assembled a...
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Huh.
This is not a drill: An international team of scientists from the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) is investigating mysterious signal spikes emitting from a 6.3-billion-year-old star in...
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My ambivalent year.*
2016 was odd. Just plain odd. On the one hand, I had the same dumpster-fire of a year that everyone had, in terms of notable deaths, bizarre & unexpected election results here and abroad, and...
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Happy (re)Birthday to me …
A year ago yesterday, I met my cardiologist for the first time. After looking over the results of my stress echo-cardiogram and discussing what it possibly meant with me, he said that I needed to have...
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I’ve been pretty open about my mild bipolar condition since I started this blog a dozen years ago. It’s real, and I have to pay attention to it, but I’ve understood it and been able to manage it safely...
View ArticleMachado-Joseph Disease: It’s all in my head
I’m in this curious grey zone currently. On the one hand, I’m about 99% certain that I have the onset of MJD, for all the reasons that I’ve mentioned. On the other, I don’t yet have a diagnosis or the...
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For about 30 years, I’ve been a conservator of rare books & documents. That came to an end yesterday when I met with my last institutional client and explained that I need to retire officially as...
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