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Can't recognize faces? Blame reading
Reading emerged as a human behavior only 5,000 years ago. Only in the past 200 years has literacy become widespread. So scientists in France, Belgium, Portugal, and Brazil wondered what part of the brain had been repurposed to handle reading. They performed MRIs on groups of adults who learned to read as children, adults who learned to read as ( Read more... ) -
End of the Season
Our youngest (15 years old) finished his outdoor soccer season this weekend with three games in sub-freezing temperatures, including an 8am game today with the temperature at 22 degrees and the field looking more like concrete than turf. Other players were out there shivering in hats and gloves and lots of layers, but the only reason our son put ( Read more... ) -
Overheard during Thanksgiving
So we're having a conversation during the celebration today ( Read more... ) -
Yo, Dissin' Your Topia
O brave new world that has such fiction in it!
John Joseph Adams has posted the cover and ToC for his anthology of dystopias, Brave New Worlds, which is available for pre-order now and will be in stores come January. (So if you get bookstore gift cards for Christmas, now you know what to buy ( Read more... ) -
Monday Mailbox
I get so many "Nigerian scam" emails that I barely glance before consigning them to the trash. But one at work today caught my eye:
Dear Sir/Madam,
Attention:
This to formally inform you that your inheritance/contract sum has
been approved. Please stop all communication with fraudsters to save
yourself the stress of being duped.
Frankly it's a ( Read more... ) -
On Target
Rae, our seventeen-year-old son, and I were at Target. It's possible that I may have needed new socks and some kind of chemical unguent to smother the ecosystem burgeoning between my toes. But we should all just walk past that ( Read more... ) -
World Fantasy Signing: Prineas, Bacigalupi, Finlay
Sarah Prineas, author of The Magic Thief middle grade series, and Paolo Bacigalupi, author of National Book Award YA finalist Ship Breaker, will be joined by yours truly for a book signing at Cover-to-Cover Books during the World Fantasy Convention in Columbus in two weeks.
Cover-to-Cover is a nationally renowned independent bookstore specializing ( Read more... )
