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Army Experimenting with Ecstasy to Treat Soldiers with PTSD

Not sure how I feel about this. Wired has a report today that Dr. Michael Mithoefer and nurse Anne Mithoefer have gotten a $500,000 grant to see if soldiers with PTSD can be treated by giving them Ecstasy. Don’t want to be a prude here, but isn’t Ecstasy largely not understood, and what is understood [...]

Trends in Fantasy Novels Cover Art: More Guns, Dragons Steady, and Glowy Magic Way Down

Orbit books, one of my favorite publishers, just put out their yearly “State of Fantasy Cover Art” chart. It’s a quick glance at some of the biggest clichés in fantasy novels, as well as some of the new fads we’re living through (e.g. zeppelins). Without further ado: I think I get what most of the [...]

Fidel Castro has a blog.

El Caballo has been in the news a lot lately, most recently because he thinks Osama bin Ladin is a CIA agent. But now he has a blog. Read it, translated into English, here. After reading Castro’s My Life–an autobiography through interviews–I became convinced that he is, in the Miltonic sense, Luciferian: often he is [...]

NSFW! Vulgar! Obscene! But easily the greatest SF tribute song ever written!

Now there’s a goal: become so famous a writer that hawt alt-girls write dirty tribute songs about you. And this is a picture of Mr. Ray Bradbury’s reaction to watching the video:

The Healing Blade–Magic-style Card Game That Teaches Med. Students About Infectious Disease

Courtesy of the American Medical News website comes the story of The Healing Blade, a (collectible? non-collectible?) card game that, through play, teaches budding Med students the ins and outs of infectious disease. It was created by two doctors, Francis Kong and Arun Mathews, who founded the game company Nerdcore Learning (more on their extremely magnanimous [...]

It’s a Small World After All: What Earth Looks Like From Mars
The Beautiful, Eerie Antarctica Bases

The stuff that dreams are made of: Wired has a profile of various countries’ bases in Antarctica that, once again, make me wonder if I should have taken a degree in the sciences. If we ever live on the Moon or Mars, it will be, partially, because we had bases on Antarctica — learning to [...]

If You’re a Writer Late on Your Taxes, Here’s a Little Help Filing for Exemptions
Sick of that treacly, overplayed “Hey There Delilah” song? The answer: “Hey There Cthulhu”
Awesome Future of Books Video

This ad might come off as too clever by half to some, but frankly, I think it’s truth-value outweighs any of its kitschy flaws.


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