Mr Woltinsky said he realized straight away that something was not quite right.

"When he got into my car, I had a bad feeling because he did not behave normally -- his eyes, his nerves -- and the fact he was wearing a big red jacket even though it was hot.

"I asked him where he wanted to go but he didn't say anything, just ( Read more... )

The figure was tall and gaunt, and shrouded from head to foot in the habiliments of the ( Read more... )

#22: [Referring to #6] Is he in for treatment? #2: Not yet. #22: Pity... Interesting subject. I should like to know his breaking point. #6: Well, you could make that your life's ambition.
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Zodon #2: Is this what you two waste all of your time and inventions doing? Fighting each other? Zodon #1: You call this a fight? We haven't even gotten giant robots involved yet.
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At exactly noon, the telephone buzzer whirred in Doc Savage's New York skyscraper headquarters. Noon, straight up, Eastern Standard Time.

The buzzer whirred three times, with lengthy pauses between whirs, which allowed time for ( Read more... )

[...] experimenters trapped wild Seattle crows just once while wearing rubber masks sold on the Internet as caveman faces. More than two years after the incident, people of various genders and ages and with different body sizes and walking gaits attracted shrieking, dive-bombing crows when wearing the masks. Yet the same people could walk ( Read more... )

Majorities will be found where it is a choice between limited alternatives [...]. There ( Read more... )

Vampire bats in Costa Rica live in colonies of a dozen or so but hunt individually. On any day, some may be lucky and others unlucky. The lucky ones return to the hollow trees where ( Read more... )

During moments of insight, cognitive filters relax momentarily and allow ideas ( Read more... )

Just imagine what it would be like if scientific advances had to confine themselves to descriptions using preexisting words. "Quarks" would have been called "little things inside atomic nuclei." "Lasers" would have been "emitters of really tightly focused beams of light produced by stimulating coherent radiation." "Antimatter" would have been " ( Read more... )