This blog entry suggests either "swap meet" or "tailgate sale" as the nearest U.S. equivalents; but neither term is used as often here, since yard sales and garage sales are more common.
Decades ago Georgi Gurevich wrote a story (in Russian) called "Infra Draconis" which was about exploration of stars smaller than red dwarfs and emitting light only in the infrared. I don't know the story's date, but a translation was included in a 1962 anthology called Soviet Science Fiction with an introduction by Asimov.
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This blog entry suggests either "swap meet" or "tailgate sale" as the nearest U.S. equivalents; but neither term is used as often here, since yard sales and garage sales are more common.
I've looked at The Cloud from both sides now!
Yes, Steven Hatfill.
You're right – what could possibly go wrong? I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords!
Has B&N been running any sweatshops lately? If not, they can claim to be less evil than Amazon.
There are actually several dozen ways of defining "species" currently in use. It's a more complicated issue than most people realize.
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
—Immanuel Kant
Shinto, not Buddhism. They literally worshiped the Emperor, and you can't draw a clear distinction between religion and patriotism in their case.
So after an infinite amount of time, the set of gaps in the fossil record will resemble the Cantor set?
HAL did seem like a good idea at first; but tell him just once to "switch to manual hibernation control" and then see what happens!
—Dave Bowman
We think of MLK's work as mostly about race, but he was seriously concerned with other social justice issues in his day.
Is it necessary, though, to have a rigorous proof before you can apply it? I wouldn't think so, but I'd like to know more of the details.
Freudian slip?
Please change "use to be" to "used to be".
If it were, the world would not yet be ready for the tale.
In other words, he is a cdesign proponentist?
http://scienceblogging.org/
More a matter of the square-cube law, actually.
How are you gentlemen? All of your baryon are belong to us!
Decades ago Georgi Gurevich wrote a story (in Russian) called "Infra Draconis" which was about exploration of stars smaller than red dwarfs and emitting light only in the infrared. I don't know the story's date, but a translation was included in a 1962 anthology called Soviet Science Fiction with an introduction by Asimov.
Yup. I'm vegan, and I don't have any inherent problem with eating GMO products.
Even an abstract geometrical solid such as a cylinder or a tetrahedron has a "surface"; I don't see why the Sun can't also.
You'll shoot your eye out...
"New Technology Turns Windows Into Solaris"? I'm overdue for a new eyeglass prescription, it would seem.
So now we need an "Oh no, it's Michael" tag?