battlefield acupuncture
Wow, times really are changing: the military is going to be using battlefield acupuncture to control pain: [T]he Air Force, which runs…
Read moreMonth: January 2009
trophic cascade: no wolves = ecodeath
J, a Friend of Ask Nicola, was in town a few weeks ago and came over for dinner. We talked about nature…
Read moreuseless statistics and extraneous information
This blog gets an average of 239 page views a day. An additional 60 or 70 people read the posts on MySpace…
Read moreAud movie? Ha.
If you’re here from AfterEllen, welcome. Look around. Enjoy. Take a look at the sidebar for some audio, some video, and a…
Read morerefuse the cliché, save the world
Okay, I’ve been saying this for years: cliché is bad, and not just in fiction. Go read this article in Wired Science:…
Read morerethinking the genetic theory of inheritance
This is pretty huge: DNA is not the only molecular mechanism of heritability. There’s a secondary mechanism, molecules that attach to DNA…
Read moreID-Dust: tracking you without your knowledge
Invisible RFID dust, ID-dust, to track people. Sprinkle a perimeter around your museum or government installation or airport security zone then track…
Read moreFriday audio: What Do You Want?
This is another cover song, this time of Joan Armatrading’s What Do You Want? It was recorded long, long ago (1983, I…
Read more2,000 years old
photo by Jennifer Durham Around my wrist I wear a set of 73 carnelians cut and faceted in Roman workshops in the…
Read moreI just won an award!
Out of the blue yesterday I got an email telling me I was one of four writers this year being awarded the…
Read morefour years to save the earth
According to this article in the Guardian, Obama has no leeway, not a second to lose. The biggest clock of all, the…
Read moregenerational change
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell is still in force, but the officers of tomorrow won’t be listening: WEST POINT — Cadets at the…
Read morebeautiful and strange
Musical instruments made of ice: beautiful and strange. I would love to hear this. (thanks Cindy). GEILO, Norway (AFP) – Never has…
Read morenovels make us better people
Bela Lugosi as Dracula (1931). Bram Stoker’s character embodied the worst excesses of aristocratic dominance. Photograph: Kobal According to an article in…
Read moreschematic of publishing trends
Oooh, this is cool. A Tube-type map of publishing trends and buzzwords of the last year: The thing is, all it does…
Read moreFriday audio: Ammonite, part more
This is a reading from Ammonite, in which Marghe learns the true history of the original inhabitants of Jeep. It’s eleven and…
Read moreThe Sensational Alex Harvey Band
The only live music I saw while growing up was school and church music: Bach on the organ, school orchestras mangling Haydn,…
Read moreDon’t be fucking cheap: a rant
Do you want to leave literature in the hands of amateurs, poseurs, and lowest-common-denominator craphacks? If you’re not buying new books that’s…
Read moreself defence, a rant
This infuriated me. It’s a blog post written by a woman who confuses martial arts with women’s self-defence. Self defence is a…
Read morevotes are in
The final results are in for our publishing co-op vote. In order of popularity: 27 (the world: the end multi-chapter epic), 20…
Read moreTetris + Ecstasy = no PTSD
illustration: The Economist In Medical News Today, I read an article that triggered a lot of thinking. It’s about how playing Tetris…
Read morespooky DNA telepathy
Scientists are reporting evidence that contrary to our current beliefs about what is possible, intact double-stranded DNA has the “amazing” ability to…
Read moremedia predictions
Clay Shirky’s new media predictions in the Guardian. Here’s part of what he had to say about newspapers. I think he’s right:…
Read moreFriday audio: Storm
This is another cover: me singing ‘Storm’, a Carmel song I fell stone in love with 25 years ago: http://www.nicolagriffith.com/audio/player.swf(direct link) Carmel,…
Read morestonehenge rocks!
There’s a concrete replica of Stonehenge here in Washington State. A Yorkshire lad, Rupert Till, paid it a visit and discovered unexpected…
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