It’s Friday and there’s a long, holiday weekend ahead. To see you through, here’s some leftovers bits and pieces from all over…
- From Phil Plait’s awesome Bad Astronomy blog, Bill Nye (The Science Guy) contrives a sundial at Cornell University that glows when the Sun reaches its daily peak in the sky.
- SF Signal unearths a spiffy, vintage vid’ of Arthur C. Clarke on the challenges of predicting the future. (He would know!)
- Jeff Vandermeer interviews Mur Lafferty on her new Afterlife
ebook novella series. (I’m a fan of Mur’s I Should Be Writing podcast.)
- Annabel Pitcher writes in defense of Dumbledore at The Guardian after Severus Snape is voted the most popular Potterverse character.
- Finally, via Io9, while the myth of the tongue taste map has been put to rest, is there another taste map — a real one — in your brain?
September 3, 2011 at 12:09 pm
Hi, Doug. I tried using the contact form but was foiled by error messages. Just thought you and your readers might want to come down (or up, or over) to Shelburne next weekend to hear TERRY BROOKS (!) at The Flying Pig next weekend. Sunday, Sept. 11 @ 1 pm.
He’ll be speaking upstairs in the Flying Pig Loft (venue might shift to a larger space depending on RSVPs). The event is free and open to the public. We’re delighted to host Mr. Brooks at his one Vermont stop on the book tour for LEGENDS OF SHANNARA: THE MEASURE OF THE MAGIC.
(We’ll have all his books available, and the new one is discounted, though I don’t want to be sales-y on your blog.)
Everyone’s welcome. RSVP to 802-985-3999 or [email protected]. Hope to see you there!
September 3, 2011 at 6:07 pm
Thanks, Elizabeth!
(And I’ll check to see what’s gone bonk with the contact form.)