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jnkq All the Cyber Monday Deals from Around the Web - Jeaoneuntor - 12-22-2024
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Why do so many of science fiction greatest stories have to do with meeting 鈥?and possibly falling in love with 鈥?strangers and strange beings Author Pat Cadigan, whose story Angel is in the new anthology Alien Contact, muses about the allure of Meeting the Other. Do you find it awkward to meet new people How about if they ;re not people Would that make it less awkward Every science fiction writer has written this story at least once, although I ;m sure the average is higher鈥攑robably half a dozen times or more. Meeting the Other remains one of the ultimate science-fictional scenarios and there always a new way to look at it. Whether the premise is the first few seconds of First Contact or humans co-existing with thousands, even millions of sentient species in a crowded universe, this is a story with endless variations. Why Because the most evocative thing you can say to anyone is, You will meet a stranger. One of the first SF books I ever bought was an anthology called Invaders Of Earth, edited by Groff Conklin. I don ;t know anything about Conklin and he seems to have been all but forgott stanley cup en now but he edited some wonderful anthologies with any luck, http://sfgateway/>the Gollancz SF Gateway program might rescue th stanley thermos mug em from oblivion . Invaders Of Earth was divided into three sections 鈥?invaders in the past, the present, and the future. I wish I could lay hands on that old book and name all the stanley us stories and authors. I d Sust Tablet Display Shootout: Fire vs Nook vs iPad
You probably know that owls can rotate their heads a remarkable 270 degrees in either direction. It practically their trademark 鈥?but it a move that by all measure should result in a massive stroke or embolism, the result of torn blood vessel linings and the onset of fatal clots. Nobody understood the physiology stanley vaso that lets owls do this 鈥?until now. Finally, a collaboration between medical illustrators and neurological imaging experts has yielded the answer 鈥?and it has to do with the owls ; remarkable bone structure and vascular network. Necks aren ;t supposed to be able to move the way owls ; do, as many studies on humans and other animals have proved. Tests on people who have suffered from sloppy chiropractic adjustments, whiplash, and even jarring roller coaster rides show that such sudden head and neck gyrations can be extremely damaging if not fatal . These extreme contortions can cut off blood sup stanley mugs ply and damage fragile blood vessels. Looking to figure out how owls are able to pull off such a remarkable feat, a multidisciplinary team from Johns Hopkins collaborated on a study that set to appear in the February 1 issue of Science. Led by medical illustrator Fabian de Kok-Mercado and neuroradiologis stanley vattenflaska t Philippe Gailloud, the team has proposed that several distinct biological adaptations make the extreme twist possible 鈥?and they all have to do with the bone structure and vascular network that supports the owl top-hea