Links and Awards

Thanks to everyone who has been linking here over the past few months. I’d like to give a couple of special thank-yous.Indiana University Professor Richard Hake has included Women in Science in his list of education blogs. It’s part of his larger project compiling resources for physics education.Long ago Nina Munteanu kindly awarded me the Excellent Blog award. I was meant to pass it on by listing 10 more blogs, but I couldn’t narrow down my choices to only ten. All of you reading this can cons

Free Fiction: Dragon Moon Press

Dragon Moon Press is a small sole proprietorship publishing house run by Gwen Gades that has managed to gather a few notables to its list of publications. Even better, several of these are available for a free pdf download at the website/blog. The current list of free fiction includes: * Alien Deception by Tony Ruggiero * Alien Revelation by Tony Ruggiero * Chalice of Life by Karen Anne Webb * Darwin’s Paradox by Nina Munteanu * Lachlei by M. H. Bonham * Small Magics by Eric Buchanan

Regrowing Body Parts: Real Bionic Women

Nina Munteanu has a very interesting post about the latest military technology that uses nano-scaffolding to regrow internal organs and other body parts.Much like a real scaffold, the nano-scaffold guides cells to grab onto it so they can begin to rebuild missing bones and tissue. “The tissue grows through tiny holes in the nano-scaffold, in the same way a vine snakes its way up a trellis,” writes Vito Pilieci of the Vancouver Sun. “after the body part has regenerated, the nano-scaffold breaks d

The Novelist: Sensual Writing

 

We have five major senses and several minor ones we aren’t even consciously aware of. The major ones include sight, hearing, smelling, touch, and taste.

In the April 2000 issue of Fiction Writer Janet Fitch, author of White Oleander, tells us that we are biologically and psychologically designed “for intense experience in a richly sensual world. [...]

The Novelist: Finding Your Muse

I often get asked how and where I draw my inspiration from. How do I find my muse? And how do I keep it? (i.e.,, how do I defeat “writer’s block”?).
The Muses, in Greek mythology, are a sisterhood of goddesses or spirits who embody the arts and inspire the creation process with their graces through [...]

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