"I Will Survive"

Kepler might be able to continue its mission after all.

Three new large(-ish) Near-Earth asteroids were discovered last week.

"With Folded Hands"

The National Science Foundation is working with the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Departments of Agriculture, and NASA to develop robots to work with and aid people in myriad ways.

Come and see the methane lakes of Titan. 

The Hubble Space Telescope has discovered an ancient galaxy, one that existed seven hundred years after the Big Bang.

A fire raining comet exploded over Egypt twenty-eight million years ago, back in the Oligocene.

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Space archaeologist unlocks secrets of ancient civilizations.

New connections between stacked solar cells can handle the energy of 70,000 suns.

Ancient Roman coins depict various sexual acts. Possibly used for payment in brothels?

A meteorite that landed in California last year carried organic molecules.

Writers/Literary Links July 1-5

My Bookish Ways interviews Mike Allen of the Clockwork Phoenix anthology series.

Penguin and Random House finalize merger, sadly going with the name Penguin/Random House instead of Random Penguin.

Adi Tantimedh interviews Alan Moore. they discuss the Kickstarter to produce the final film in the Jimmy's End Cycle.

On Thomas Pynchon's new novel and his avoidance of the press and celebrity.

Amazing Stories interviews Lois McMaster Bujold.

Science Links, July 1-5

Quantum tunneling allows "impossible" molecules to form in space.

Functioning human livers have been grown from stem cells.

Science 6/27

Unlooted, 1200 year old royal tomb of the Wari civilization found in Peru.

Voyager 1 explores the edge of our solar bubble.

This past week's Planetary Radio features the music of Peter Mayer. Host Mat Kaplan and Planetary Society CEO Bill Nye chat with him.

Writers/Literary 6/29

Kristine Kathryn Rusch: How life changing events can stop you from writing and how bankruptcy can cost you ownership of your copyright.

The publishing world becomes smaller: Hachette to buy Hyperion.

At Sword & Laser, Veronica Belmont interviews Gene Wolfe.

Science! 9/25 "I guess it's more important that they have 'em."

The ancient Mayan city of Chactun was discovered by an archaeologist looking at aerial photos of Mexico. 

Three potentially habitable planets are orbiting Gliese 667C, only 22 light years away.

Scientists still have no clue why women have orgasms.

Nerve cells regrown in rats after spinal injury.

Writers/Literary: 6/22 - 6/23

Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe chat wit M. John Harrison in this week's Coode Street Podcast. Last week, the guest was E. Lily Yu.

Episode 400 of Escape Pod was Arthur C. Clarke's "Rescue Party."

This week's Drabblecast was a Mary Robinette Kowal doubleheader, "Locked In" and "Clockwork Chickadee."

Michael Sheen will read The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman for BBC Radio 4.  This should be broadcast sometime in July.

Alice Munro says she's retiring.

Assorted Links 6/18

Laser scanning has revealed remnants of a vast urban structure in Angkor Wat.

An Ohio microbrewery is trying to recreate the taste of ancient Sumerian beer.

Writers 06/18

Chuck Wendig courts controversy when Fran Wilde interviews him for Cooking the Books. Says he, bacon, as a trend, is over.

The politics of Neil Gaiman.

Writers 6/17

Alan Moore and Mitch Jenkins are working on a film and they've trying to fund it through Kickstarter.

This week's SFSignal podcast round table features a discussion of the work of Iain M Banks. 

The nominees for the British Fantasy Awards have been announced.

Book/Writing 6/15-16

"For all my sins – and I assure you, the only thing that has ever held me back from God-like greatness is my humility – I am the Harlan Ellison, the only one. I'm in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, right between Ellis Island and Ralph Ellison."

Ian Banks: The Final Interview

James Joyce's last undiscovered pieces to be published.

Rebecca Keegan interviews Neil Gaiman for the Los Angeles Times.