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Anders Brink
Anders Brink is a SF Writer.
August 23, 2008
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This article in Scientific American shows medical research, tainted by big pharmaceutical money, goes off the tracks.Let this be a lesson to me. The exhortation for more funding for space research should be tempered with the common sensical considerations of the corrupting effect of money.So does it mean that we shouldn't fund more science? No, what we need is more …
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I hereby declare this new association set up and accepting members. Do you remember playing this computer game where a frog had to brave its way across a road and a pond to his lily pad. How nostalgic!Now anyone who remembers and want to belong, please pay me $50 for the love, and become a fully certified frogger.Unlike other people who just set up a website and claim to …
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I thought very hard about this. Should I just shut up and let yet another false preacher off the hook? Just live and let be? Or should I let people know about this kind of thing that goes behind closed doors in the so-called "righteous" Christian worldview?Then I saw the light. If they cannot tolerate the light, why should I help them hide it?And so without further ado, this …
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Finally, to close the debate on Human Organ Trading, let me provide a science fictional solution that satisfies all parties. It especially satisfies those who will buy an organ, but refuse to sell theirs.This solution is growing organs in vitro for in vivo use in the case of organ failure. That’s the promize of stem ...
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Who is Norman Borlaug, you may ask and why should you care? Why the father of the Green Revolution, no less.What was the Green Revolution? It was a scientific effort to introduce high yielding varieties of crops, combined with modern farming methods into third world countries in the 1960s and 1970s. Because of his effort, Mexico, India and Pakistan and other countries became …
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This is Korean director Chan Wook Park's film. It is about vampires. Like I said about vampire movies, I consider the entire premise of vampires based on superstition. They are silly creatures, however much you try to dress them up as science, as a result of some kind of viral epidemic. In science and science-fiction, you start from the fundamental premise and work out the …
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Not having read Audrey Niffeninger's story, I was surprised by this movie. It is an utterly romantic story about how a man courts a woman, despite being cursed by a genetic disorder to uncontrollably be projected into the past or future.The point of the story is the romance between Claire and Henry. This is handled sensitively. The disturbing aspect of and older Henry …
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Sam is an astronaut on the Moon, mining Helium 3 to solve the energy crisis on Earth. He has been there for 2 years and more, and is two weeks from the end of the three-year contract ... or so he thinks. He has only a robot assistant GERTY to talk to. The communications tower has been damaged, and his link to Earth is intermittent. While trying to repair a harvester truck, he …
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This SF movie is a real gem. Aliens arrive on Earth in the 1980s in Johannesburg, South Africa. They are segregated and forced to live in the slums of District 9. Of course the allegory to apartheid is intentional. The humans treat the aliens as subhuman, with casual cruelty. They want to evict them from District 9 to a special concentration camp 200 miles south. Wikas van …
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