Even robot Maria needs a cool drink - A fabulous film still from Fritz Lang’s Metropolis. Thanks, Coudal Partners.
Finalists named for Philip K. Dick Award - The award recognizes exceptional science fiction “paperback originals” in the United States.
Watchmen settlement is “close” - It looks like Fox does have distribution rights to the film.
Humans are super-predators - And animals are evolving at a quickened pace as a result, even putting some species in danger.
Japanese scientists clone legendary bull - He is apparently “the ancestral bull of a luxurious brand of beef.” Sound weird? Even weirder: “Japan has a variety of beef marketed as high-end. Ranchers sometimes massage the animals or feed them beer while they are being raised for slaughter.”
World’s first bio-fueled flying car - “With the help of a parachute and a giant fan-motor, Neil Laughton plans to soar over the Pyrenees near Andorra, before taking to the skies again to hop across the 14-km (nine-mile) Straits of Gibraltar.”
You must choose: boil a kettle? Or 2 Google searches? - Dr Alex Wissner-Gross, a Harvard University physicist, researched how much CO2 gets produced from web-related tasks. The answers are surprising (and denied by Google).
Fiction reading increases for adults - The percentage of people who read at least one work of fiction last year has gone up in nearly every demographic.
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Tellingly: "Wissner-Gross, the physicist whose work on the energy-efficiency of web browsing formed the basis for the original story, says he never even mentioned Google in his study, and suggests that the article has used his work in a context he doesn't see as especially relevant."
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