Something unknown has caused one girl to stop aging at 6 months old. Her mom says they’re just waiting “to see what tomorrow brings”… I predict it will bring a lot of people wanting whatever condition she has bottled and sold– but adjusted to let them stop aging at their present age, or around age 22. Via Practical Demonkeeping: Forever Young
Month: April 2006
Korean Robot Nannies
Here’s more on that.
Writing Science Fiction During the Third World War
The sorta-dead The Infinite Matrix has Eleanor Arnason’s great speech/essay on the subject. Worth a read, and look around there while you’re there.
James Morrow | Interviews | SCI FI Weekly
James Morrow on Intelligent Design: Intelligent design theory is technically a different beast from creationism, because its advocates do allow that natural selective pressures may have shaped the destiny of the primordial—supposedly exogenous—organic molecules. The apostles of ID do not automatically dismiss the possibility of the modern horse emerging from the eohippus through evolution. They would even argue that the intelligent designer is not ipso facto the creator-god of Christian revelation, though it’s obvious they’re sponsoring him for the job. For my money, the whole enterprise should not be called intelligent design theory but rather IDIOT—Intelligent Design Implicit Onto-Theology. ID …
Age of Embodiment
Age of Embodiment isa blog on technology and culture run by the Canadian SF author Karl Schroeder. There are so many good posts I’m just linking directly.