Tag Archives: Mike Reeves-McMillan

Nov 03

My story “Something Rich and Strange” will be podcast on The Overcast next week.

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My story “Something Rich and Strange” will be podcast on The Overcast next week. 

A Victorian miss in an alternate version of our world finds her true self at the Change Storm, the bizarre natural phenomenon that her father studies.

(I’ll drop a link once it’s up.)

http://peoples-ink.com/the-overcast/

Nov 02

The Hollows urban fantasy series starts with an infodump about a genetic plague spread by tomatoes.

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The Hollows urban fantasy series starts with an infodump about a genetic plague spread by tomatoes. Kim Harrison may have had it backwards.

Originally shared by Larry Panozzo

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Physics breakthroughs, astronomy discoveries, and impressive biomedical advancements. Even a new type of cancer treatment that reprograms cancer cells to kill other cancer cells! It’s all in the links below!

• Redesigned Hall Thruster

http://www.sciencealert.com/this-plasma-engine-could-get-humans-to-mars-on-100-million-times-less-fuel

• Oxygen Found Around Comet 67P

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-34660576

• Restoring Neural Plasticity

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/neuron-transplants-may-one-day-reverse-blindness/

• Femtosecond Electron Pulses

http://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnology-news/newsid=41691.php

• Lab Grown Intestinal Linings

http://news.sciencemag.org/health/2015/10/lab-grown-guts-show-promise-mice-and-dogs

• Hundreds of Young Stars Discovered

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-10/e-vdn102615.php

• Making Leukemia Cells Kill Each Other

http://nextbigfuture.com/2015/10/researchers-making-leukemia-cells-kill.html

• Turning Tomatoes into Pharmaceutical Labs

http://www.thelatestnews.com/will-gm-tomatoes-be-used-to-fight-diseases-in-the-future/

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Nov 01

The “Simple Sabotage Field Manual,” put out by the OSS (the CIA’s predecessor) in 1944, is a wonderful source of…

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Originally shared by Yonatan Zunger

The “Simple Sabotage Field Manual,” put out by the OSS (the CIA’s predecessor) in 1944, is a wonderful source of tips and techniques for anti-management. What’s particularly brilliant is that revealing these methods can be even more destructive than concealing them: consider what happens when every time someone does something stupid and inefficient, the response is for people to wonder if that person is actually a saboteur. (The answer, by the way, is “The Joys of Stalin,” and is why Russia almost lost WWII: he had spent the 1930’s purging everyone that he didn’t trust, which is to say, basically everyone who knew anything)

But if you’re willing to accept that the people around you might just be idiots, and not actively planning your overthrow, then the pamphlet is a short and surprisingly amusing read. You can see the whole thing at https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/2012-featured-story-archive/simple-sabotage.html .

h/t Neha Narula 

Oct 31

I’ve spent the morning setting up a new sub-website devoted to short stories.

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I’ve spent the morning setting up a new sub-website devoted to short stories. Initially, I just have a (database-driven) page that lists my publications, with links and cover art, but the plan is to also make it the site for my forthcoming nonfiction book, The Craft and Commerce of Short Story Writing. 

http://csidemedia.com/shortstories/

Oct 31

In Memory: A Tribute to Sir Terry Pratchett is a charity anthology in aid of Alzheimer’s research, by fans of the…

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In Memory: A Tribute to Sir Terry Pratchett is a charity anthology in aid of Alzheimer’s research, by fans of the late great author. I’m genuinely proud to be included among the contributors.

Pre-release, it’s got great reviews, and although I don’t formally review books that I contribute to, I’d like to say that several of the stories moved me deeply or made me laugh out loud.

Today is release day on Amazon. If you’re a Pratchett fan and/or want to contribute to a cause close to his heart, pick up a copy.

(Linking to Amazon seems to be weird today. The book isn’t actually called “Robot Check”.)

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0163JZBLE/

Oct 31

A couple of really cool ones this week.

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A couple of really cool ones this week. The balloon internet, wifi X-ray and 3D-printed houses are all things I plan to use in fiction.

Originally shared by Larry Panozzo

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Exciting new tech in all the tech industries! It’s all in the links below…

• Acoustic Tractor Beam

http://factor-tech.com/connected-world/20371-worlds-first-sonic-tractor-beam-lifts-objects-using-sound-waves/

• Project Loon to Cover India

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/542956/alphabets-stratospheric-loon-balloons-to-start-serving-internet-to-indonesia/

• Wifi X-ray

http://www.theverge.com/2015/10/28/9625636/rf-capture-mit-wifi-tracking-surveillance-technology

• Flexible, Wearable Batteries

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20151020005692/en/Samsung-SDI%E2%80%99s-Next-Gen-Wearable-Battery-Unpack%E2%80%A6Showing-Next-Generation

• VR Simulation Puts You Aboard ISS

http://www.roadtovr.com/earthlight-astronaut-vr-sim-puts-iss-nasa-collaborates-realism/

• 3D Printing Entire Homes in 24 Hours

http://zbrella.com/contour-crafting-to-3d-print-entire-homes-in-under-24-hours-on-site/

• High Capacity Battery Case

http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/edison-power-company-sunvault-energy-kickstart-smartphone-battery-case-prototype-using-otcqb-svlt-2065986.htm

• Room Temperature Quantum Material

http://phys.org/news/2015-10-quantum-thin.html

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Oct 17

I’m not saying it’s aliens, but…

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I’m not saying it’s aliens, but…

Originally shared by K.B. Burnfield

Astronomers may have found giant alien ‘megastructures’ orbiting star near the Milky Way

Whoa…

A large cluster of objects in space look like something you would “expect an alien civilization to build”, astronomers have said.

Jason Wright, an astronomer from Penn State University, is set to publish a report on the “bizarre” star system suggesting the objects could be a “swarm of megastructures”, according to a new report.

Here’s the link to the source of this story and its even more interesting and exciting:

http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/10/the-most-interesting-star-in-our-galaxy/410023/

https://richarddawkins.net/2015/10/astronomers-may-have-found-giant-alien-megastructures-orbiting-star-near-the-milky-way/