Gender Bias Literary Reviews Day 2

Diane Rehm interviews Adam Johnson about his novel, The Orphan Master's Son.

So, as of day two, two women and one man.

German Electronic Musicians Go!

Interview with Dieter Moebius of Cluster/Kluster

Ammo For Fights

CBO Budget and Economic Outlook for the next ten years.

Gender Bias Literary Reviews, Day 1

A recent article in the Boston Phoenix commented on the lack of reviews on NPR for fiction written by women and strongly implied that there was a deliberate gender bias on the part of the network. As Diane Rehm and Terry Gross are two of their more popular hosts, I have a hard time accepting that they would skew more towards men. So form now to the end of February, I plan to to link to and add up NPR's literary reviews and interviews.

Margaux Fragoso reviews Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye.

Maureen Corrigan reviews An Available Man by Hilma Wolitzer.

Two literary reviews today, both women.

I see New Atlantis from here!

Where does all the junk in the oceans end up?

Which reminds me I need to buy groceries

No Robots

Losing Magnitude

Ancient astronomers appear to have accounted for atmospheric extinction.

Freshwater Within Saltwater

UK scientists have detected a freshwater "dome" within the Arctic Ocean.

Devil's Water

A journey to find the underground river of NYC, Minette Brook, called by the Dutch settlers Bestevear's Killetje (Grandfather's Little Creek) or by Native Americans Manette (Devil's Water.)

I Ordered Nine Plus a Side of Time

Why our universe has three dimensions.

Buckyballs, He Had Them

Bucky Fuller's Operating Manual for Planet Earth

Can I Have Some Sloth With That?

Tough week for the Yahoo-Yahoo Boys. Hard political times in Nigeria (strikes, the Occupy movement) has slowed the Nigerian 419 scammers.

"Let's all go to the lobby"

It appears that Peruvians were eating popcorn back in 4700BC, which is 1000 years earlier than previously thought.

For Reading Later

Superstuff: When Quantum Goes Big

Cool a piece of metal or a bucket of helium to near absolute zero and, in the right conditions, you will see the metal levitating above a magnet, liquid helium flowing up the walls of its container or solids passing through each other. "We love to observe these phenomena in the lab," says Ed Hinds of Imperial College, London.

This weirdness is not mere entertainment, though. From these strange phenomena we can tease out all of chemistry and biology, find deliverance from our energy crisis and perhaps even unveil the ultimate nature of the universe. Welcome to the world of superstuff.

"Can anybody hear me?"

The High Frequency Instrument on board the ESA's Planck spacecraft has finished observing for cosmic microwave background, an "echo" of the Big Bang.

Drill, Baby, Drill

We know that life can flourish in very hot deep sea vents. Now there is an expedition to explore Antarctica's Lake Ellsworth, a sub-glacial lake reasonable accessible, for signs of life and sediment samples to better understand the past climate.

5 Manifestos for the Creative Life

‎"Pretending you know what you’re doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you’re doing even if you don’t and do it.”

The Rookery

I am strongly fighting the urge to write a short novel or novella and "publish" it in this blog. Working title: The Rookery.

If I do this, I plan to use the Clockwork Storybook 30 Day Challenge as a pacer to force me to finish, to get something down.

On one hand, I expect it'll come a cropper, trying to put first-ish draft prose up here on a daily basis and expect it to be not good but tolerable. On the other hand, writing means BIC and getting the words down so it can be fixed in subsequent drafts.

I know better. I know better. I know better.

Bugger.



The Rookery by James O. Veitch is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.

Skiing With Dr Strangelove

A beautiful mountain home in the Adirondacks is a cover for an abandoned Cold War missile base.

Somewhere Between Kin and Kind

Nature photographer, conservationist, and biotech entrepreneur John King had an incredibly rare encounter with a troop of mountain gorillas in Uganda's Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. The gorillas passed through his camp and stopped to observe him, with a grooming him. 

The park is known to be home to 350 mountain gorillas, about half the number of known wild gorillas.

"The Prince and the Porpoise"

Erstwhile, a webcomic series based on the lesser known works of the Brothers Grimm.