A Russian family who fled from totalitarian persecution in the 1930s remained in the taiga for 40 years, 150 miles away from any human contact. A group of geologists discovered them by chance in 1978, a family of five at that time. They lived an incredibly harsh, challenging life that is hard to comprehend much less describe, and one of the ( Read more... )

This ramble of his agrees with a lot of the things I've learned about writing as a business. I am always impartial to a writer who brings up math and numbers, but he got it right on when he said "there is no such thing as a writer's block but depression does exist."

Ramble about pro writing

When mercury thiocyanate burns it looks like this.

Kalzarius links me to another video of that disturbing chemical. More. Mein Bog, this stuff is bloody freaky.

I will now subject you to horror and depravity! Have fun!

Disturbing worm and disturbing spider

A study of rural and urban children when entering kindergarten at least in part agrees with me: geographical isolation can be pretty damaging to their development.

Why would rural and urban kids both be unprepared for kindergarten?

From Bruce Sterling, we have actual pictures of a miniature cyber warfare testing grounds 'city' that has actual working mechanisms inside it to hack into and sabotage. Man that sound like fun. Hell yeah, I want to visit!

Miniature CyberCity

Of all of the parodies of Gangnam Style, I think Nasa Johnson Style completely rules them all.
Cause we make the tech that goes through the air! Through the air!

This article about the conflict between Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google has been sitting around my favorites for an embarrassingly long time. I wanted to try and focus on them obsessively, though, and I've learned a lot since I've become aware of the corporations carrying so much power behind them ( Read more... )

I accept this challenge from Nancy Fulda! You go to page 7 or 77 of your current work in progress, read down to the seventh line and then post the next seven lines or sentences. Give or take here's part of page 77 for what I refer to either as Vespasian Shiraan or Secrets of the Empire 3, Can't Fall Back"I'm going out to meet them," Rochelle said ( Read more... )

It's another round of the gloriously insane Wendig and his deranged writing ideas. This one is particularly insane, and you have to love how in the first paragraph he brings up a human centipede...

Ways to Unstuck a Stuck Story