The Weekly Ansible, 50 Sci-Fi & Fantasy Works Every Socialist Should Read (by China Mieville) Truman Capote, Gay Talese, and Lester Bangs on how to write great nonfiction Photo by Carl Van Vechten/Library of Congress. Every weekend, Longform shares a collection of great stories from its archive with Slate. For daily picks of new and classic nonfiction, check out Longform or follow @longform on Twitter. Have an iPad? Each week we put together a collection of stories on a theme; this week’s theme is how those stories get written. Truman Capote, George Plimpton • New York Times • January 1966 A conversation about a new art form called “creative journalism,” conducted the same month In Cold Blood was published. “Twelve years ago I began to train myself, for the purpose of this sort of book, to transcribe conversation without using a tape-recorder. Katie Roiphe • Paris Review • Summer 2009 An interview with Talese on his career and daily writing routine. “INTERVIEWER: How do you write? Emily Brennan • Guernica • September 2012 An interview with Katherine Boo about how you cover the world’s poorest. George Orwell • Gangrel • June 1946 Notes for the next generation.
Omni (magazine) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Nightly Omni was a science and science fiction magazine published in the US and the UK. It contained articles on science, parapsychology, and short works of science fiction and fantasy.[1] It was published as a print version between October 1978 and 1995. The first Omni e-magazine was published on CompuServe in 1986 and the magazine switched to a purely online presence in 1996.[2][3] It ceased publication abruptly in 1997, following the death of co-founder Kathy Keeton, and closed down in 1998.[4][5] Omni was founded by Kathy Keeton and her long-time collaborator and future husband Bob Guccione, the publisher of Penthouse magazine.[6] The initial concept came from Keeton, who wanted a magazine "that explored all realms of science and the paranormal, that delved into all corners of the unknown and projected some of those discoveries into fiction. In 1997, Keeton died from complications of breast cancer. Omni magazine was published in at least six languages. Footnotes
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Behold the incredible places where we'll build cities in space Another thought provoking article at io9. Europa is a must-go-now destination. Forget about the very entertaining film of the same name, I want to see a global effort to send a submersible probe, outfitted with a drill to find passage beneath it's icy surface, and I don't want to wait twenty years for this to happen. The exploration, militarization and colonization of our solar systems jurisdiction is "crucial" to the survival of our species. For now...I believe that we should concentrate on building large ships and probe our system bodies. <—-don't take that statement someplace other than what it was written to mean. I like the idea of planetary bases, but if radiation is one of our largest enemies, maybe a synthetic atmosphere is a nice goal. If we create an artificial atmosphere, wouldn't that be the best shield to deflect radiation and even meteors? And yes, I know this is fanciful thinking, but so was the Star Trek communicator 40 years ago. Hmmm...
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Memories of Omni magazine - Boing Boing - Nightly I miss Omni magazine. It was a terrific blend of technology, science, art, fiction, futurism, and high weirdness. It definitely inspired my worldview and interests that I hope come across on BB. In fact, if I could launch a new Boing Boing print magazine, it might have this logo, courtesy of Rob Beschizza: For more Omni wonderfulness, a French site called Collectors Showcase has a nearly complete set of Omni covers. Earth Sciences NASA: Arctic Cyclone Breaks Up Sea Ice Home | About Us | Contact | Subscribe NASA: Arctic Cyclone Breaks Up Sea Ice Short 'n Sweet! Published by NASAexplorer September 19, 2012 Watch how the winds of a large Arctic cyclone broke up the thinning sea ice cover of the Arctic Ocean in early August 2012. The storm likely contributed to the ice cap's shrinking to the smallest recorded extent in the past three decades. The frozen cap of the Arctic Ocean likely reached its annual summertime minimum extent and broke a new record low on Sept. 16, the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado in Boulder has reported. "Climate models have predicted a retreat of the Arctic sea ice; but the actual retreat has proven to be much more rapid than the predictions," said Claire Parkinson, a climate scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. "The storm definitely seems to have played a role in this year's unusually large retreat of the ice," Parkinson said. For more Earth Sciences videos, click here
Science Fiction Does Something Way Better Than Predict The Future Isn't it plausible to say it has created the future as well. SciFi has influenced so many people, maybe influenced some to the point where they wanted to create what they have loved for so long. Examples are everywhere, especially with our latest technology. Ofcourse it does that. Pick up a book like Stand on Zanzibar, and do a little research, and it is easy to find examples of people who took inspiration from there to ideas, and ultimately to processes of creation. But even on a more general / collective level, perspectives that become internalised by social dynamics, the group level of human perception, pave the road for those groups to create conditions and circumstances that follow (and fill) anticipations and expectations created by what and how groups internalise concepts.
The History of Rome by Titus Livius, in 6 vols. About this Title: Livy’s History of Rome begins with its founding and continues up to the reign of Augustus. Copyright information: The text is in the public domain. Fair use statement: This material is put online to further the educational goals of Liberty Fund, Inc. Animals Urban Beekeeping Home | About Us | Contact | Subscribe Urban Beekeeping Subculture Club Backwards Beekeepers Published by thethrashlab June 20, 2012 In this episode of Subculture Club we meet up with Urban Beekeeping guru Kirk Anderson (aka Kirkobeeo), co-founder of the Backwards Beekeepers. For more Animals videos, click here See the complete catalog offorbidden knowledge tv videos About Us | Privacy Policy | Contact