Nethermore cover art reviews

By John Brown | April 24, 2008 - 3:58 pm |April 24, 2008 Zing

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A huge part of science fiction and fantasy is the art. I’m always amazed at how powerful a cover can be. In fact, I remember buying the Thomas Covenant series because of those covers. I hated the hero. He drove me nuts. But those covers (and the other cool things) made up for it. So →

Mongoose Robot Duo

By John Brown | April 24, 2008 - 2:08 pm |April 24, 2008 Zing

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I always thought mongooses (or is it mongeese?) were cool. I mean, they kill and eat snakes. What’s not to like about that? But it appears they’ve got more than one trick up their sleeves. Mongoose-robot duo sniff out landmines on the cheap Here’s more at NewScientist if you’ve got a sub.

TED

By John Brown | April 20, 2008 - 8:57 pm |May 10, 2008 Zing

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I LOVE TED. No, I’m not coming out of any closet. I’m talking the annual Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) forum. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader.The annual conference now brings together the world’s most fascinating thinkers and doers, →

The Myth of Being More Productive by Multitasking

By John Brown | April 14, 2008 - 9:09 am |April 14, 2008 On Teaching, Zing

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One of my personal flaws is my monkey fascination. I am interested in too many things. For example, when I was at the university I wanted to major in English, History, Dutch, Art, and graduate with Honors. Um, no. That didn’t work. They finally wrote me a letter and said 220 credits was more than →