Home is Where the Heart Is

You are environment; and environment is you —Nina Munteanu In a recent Scientific American Mind article, entitled ” Building Around the Mind ” Emily Anthes recounts the story of how prizewinning biologist Jonas Salk came up with the polio vaccine in the 1950s. According to Anthes, Salk’s progress was slow in his dark basement laboratory in Pittsburg, so he decided to travel to Assisi, Italy, to clear his head. Amid his ambles within the cloistered courtyards and elegant columns of a 13th Cen

Author’s Retreat…Changing the World with Your Mind…And Faith

Last week I went on an author’s retreat at my friend’s cabin near Manning Park in British Columbia. Some of them were going skiing at the nearby ski hill and Anne thought I’d appreciate the rustic setting as an ideal place to write. I leapt at the chance. I had lots of writing to do and had set myself up for quite a work schedule: I’d promised ten articles and some excerpts to my publisher, three articles to the online magazine I write for, a review of my manuscript contract with my other publis

Science and Fiction–Recommended Reads

This is my last summary of responses to the questions Peggy and I posed in November. Today’s question was posed to both science bloggers and science fiction writers. Are there any specific science or science fiction blogs you would recommend to interested readers or writers? The short answer is “yes.” Here’s the long answer: Science and Technology Astrobiology Magazine Science news relevant to the possibility of life on other worlds. Astronomy Picture of the Day Bad Astronomy Phil

Science and Science Fiction: What the scientists say: SF to discuss science

This is part three of my overview of the responses of scientists to the questions Stephanie Svan and I asked about the relationship between science and science fiction. You can find links to all the contributors’ complete answers and our summaries at the ScienceOnline09 Wiki . Also, be sure to check out the compilation of recommended science, science fiction, and related web sites . Below I’ve highlighted snippets from some of the responses to the question: Have you used science fictio

Science and Fiction–Writers Respond #3

Here we continue on in our look at the relationship between science and science fiction (see my posts here and here and Peggy’s here and here ). Today’s question for science fiction writers: How important is it to you that the science be right? What kind of resources do you use for accuracy? As always, the full list of respondents is on the ScienceOnline09 conference wiki , and all the answers are worth reading in their entirety. There was a very wide range of opinion among writers a

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