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davidbrin, 1 day ago to random

GLORY SEASON re-issued with a fine new cover! And today (only) you can get the e-version for $1.99 at Barnes & Noble and Kobo etc. One of my best characters, Maia prevails over dangers and challenges on a world unlike any you ever encountered!

https://www.davidbrin.com/gloryseason.html

davidbrin, 1 day ago to random

This weekend's brief posting is about science! Great stuff going on.

https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2024/05/updates-science-robotics.html

davidbrin, 3 days ago to random

From the sublime to...the huh? Does putting Neosporin in your nose help fend off covid? Surprisingly, there’s preliminary evidence that it does.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/could-putting-neosporin-in-your-nose-fend-off-covid/

davidbrin, 5 days ago to random

J. Roberts's top job for his masters: protect gerrymandering. A Dem win will let Hakeem Jeffries pass (and Biden sign) a renewed Voting Rights Act. They hope flakes on our side will scamper to the next Nader-Stein Kremlin agent. Or a Reichstag fire.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-rules-gop-south-carolina-redistricting-case-rcna127946

davidbrin, 7 days ago to random

Donation #104 today, completing gallon #13. It's not for everyone. But if you feel okay about it, well, it does some good. And I think it vitalizes the donor! (I use my local blood bank, not Red Cross, but it amounts to the same thing.)
www.redcrossblood.org

davidbrin, 9 days ago to random

Never underestimate Peter Diamandis! XPrize is world-changing. His Abundance book +blog are tonics vs modern gloom fetishes. Peter’s latest prediction- we’ll grow complete replacement organs by 2030! (I deem it quite plausible.)
https://www.diamandis.com/blog/3-approaches-to-organ-abundance?

davidbrin, 12 days ago to random

Today only, the e-book of Heaven's Reach is just $1.99 on Kobo and other fine sources.
http://www.davidbrin.com/heavensreach.html

davidbrin, 12 days ago to random

“Natural iron fertilization of the Southern Ocean by windblown dust has been suggested to enhance biological productivity and modulate the climate.” This needs carefully graduated experimentation NOW.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07366-4

davidbrin, 13 days ago to random

The Space Show audio podcast oft features my friend Joe Carroll, the most innovative and agile independent space engineer I know, who pioneered the use of tethers and long cables in orbit and has insights into problems like space debris, space power etc.
https://www.thespaceshow.com/guest/joe-carroll

davidbrin, 16 days ago to random

So far no big news of "EMP-level" damage from solar storm. See the massive flare that hurled the vast ion storm our way! (As described in SUNDIVER, BTW.) At minimum this will threaten low-orbit satellites eg Starlink & test lots of circuit breakers.
https://www.ndtv.com/science/nasa-shares-photos-of-massive-explosions-on-sun-that-unleashed-solar-flares-5643851

davidbrin, 29 days ago to random

Today only, the entire Uplift Storm Trilogy (e-book) is on sale for $4.99. The biggest - and MULTI-galactic - adventure and total way fun.

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-uplift-storm-trilogy

davidbrin, 1 month ago to random

A fundamental trait of any society is RESILIENCE: Never was it more relevant to discuss what we should have done by now... and can still do... to help our nations, civilization and families be more robust against the batterings of fate.

http://denninginstitute.com/pjd/PUBS/CACMcols/cacmJun19.pdf

davidbrin, 1 month ago to random

Fragmented crater near a CO2 icecap on Mars offers another “Gosh!” image from Red Planet. Spiders & Inca cities! Alas all of it explained by science. MY science -my doctoral dissertation re similar acts on comets. Way-kewl, even if not alien spiders!

https://www.livescience.com/space/mars/hundreds-of-black-spiders-spotted-in-mysterious-inca-city-on-mars-in-new-satellite-photos

davidbrin, 1 month ago to random

Today EARTH (e-book) is just $1.99! Hugo Award runner-up that's on every top10 predictive novels list and honors Earth Day! And Monday (4/29) the whole Uplift Storm Trilogy will be just $4.99. (e-book.) Vast, vast adventure.
https://www.davidbrin.com/earth.html

davidbrin, 1 month ago to random

Survival of the richest: "Wealthy U.S. families are applying for 2nd citizenships to hedge." Parasite preppers who yearn for feudalism after an 'Event' are not fellow citizens. Know that the nerds they despise will always know where they are. Always.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeZyLkSVoWE

davidbrin, 1 month ago to random

The tachyon cosmological model is unlikely to pass rigorous experimental tests, given the unlikely nature of tachyons - particles that (in a weird aspect of relativity) might (notionally) move ONLY faster than light.

https://www.livescience.com/physics-mathematics/dark-matter/the-universe-may-be-dominated-by-particles-that-break-causality-and-move-faster-than-light-new-paper-suggests

davidbrin, 1 month ago to random

Our planet faces many dangers (as shown in EARTH*). While much depends on restoring wisdom+sense to our present, there are also dangers farther ahead, like the sun's rising temperature across the next 100M years. Here's how our heirs might save our world!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai8x-ZqjXPc

davidbrin, 1 month ago to random

Noam Chomsky is a litmus for fecal nonsense. I can't recall once across 30 yrs when he said anything right or wise. Much like that vile gnome Yoda -and DTrump- he growls/grumps nonsense while fans nod, citing him in book quotes and mind-poison virals.

https://news.berkeley.edu/2022/05/19/open-letter-to-noam-chomsky-and-other-like-minded-intellectuals-on-the-russia-ukraine-war

davidbrin, 1 month ago to random

I post about a new cult term for rich preppers who seek to accelerate the "Event" or final crisis. NOT rapture-dopes, some are tech zillionaires who think a collapse -followed by their wise rulership- is for the greater good. An ingrate masturba-fantasy.
https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2024/04/accelerationism-and-recurring-flaw-in.html

davidbrin, 1 month ago to random

Bad terminology. Sure, love of feudal oligarchy makes them 'right-wing.' But devotion to Putin and his 10,000 "ex" commissars & "ex" KGB agents - now wearing different lapel pins with the same methods and goal - makes it blatant.
Confederates = commies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThkKR8yrTeM

davidbrin, 1 month ago to random

The world's smallest language contains just 120 words
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY3Qe_b9ufI

davidbrin, 1 month ago to random

Friday April 5 THE UPLIFT WAR e-book should be on sale everywhere, but it appears to only be on Amazon... Then on Saturday the e-book of HEAVEN'S REACH... or so I'm told.
Hoping for good weather Monday in Texas!

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B091Y4Z8BM/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=f0cd4-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B091Y4Z8BM&linkId=ad4e2ed1f979356da4bf9f6be87ff5c0

davidbrin, 1 month ago to random

There will be two memorials for Vernor Vinge. The first - a small gathering at the facility where he spent his last days - will commence tomorrow Wednesday at Casa de Mañana in La Jolla at 2pm Pacific. You can tune in here, I believe:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKwQ_3ejkLA

davidbrin, 1 month ago to random

This weekend's posting is 90% a draft I prepared in 2022 about economic inequality and what we can do about it. Then how the re-industrialization of America - going on right now(!!) has proved that Keynes was right and Laffer totally wrong.
https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2024/03/do-rich-have-too-much-money-neglected.html

davidbrin, 2 months ago to random

Peter Diamandis talks up "Dreaming Big." XPrize (I'm on the outer advisory board) uses contests and rivalry to propel many cool concepts. Great outcomes, like NASA's Innovative & Advanced Concepts program - (NIAC)*

https://www.diamandis.com/blog/fund-your-purpose-launch

*(I spent 12 years on that advisory council, too.)