Ever curious how a lightsaber works? How Stuff Works is here for you! (along with some great suggestions for practical uses of your new weapon).
Like swords? Here’s a fun list of 15 famous ones from around the world – from the legendary to the fictitious but fabulous.
Synthetic Genomics (if I understand this article correctly): the ability to make synthetic lifeforms by inserting digitally crafted DNA into an already existing lifeform to replace the original genetic structure with a created one. An example from the article: craft a synthetic genome of a woolly mammoth and insert it into an elephant egg cell after “deleting” the elephant DNA. Then… I guess… the elephant would birth a woolly mammoth instead of an elephant. They haven’t gone that far yet, but apparently scientists have created self-replicating cells using synthetic DNA, which makes this incredible feat of science fiction… possible. Wow. Talk about potential for both awesomeness and complete misuse.
Patricia Briggs
- Writes the Mercy Thompson Series – awesome stuff
H. Dresden says:
"Maybe I just have a limited attention span, but life is keeping me pretty busy. I’m going to be dead a lot longer than I’m alive. Plenty of time to figure out the afterlife then."
Urban Fantasy is…
“In urban fantasy you don’t leave the chip shop and go to another world to find the unicorn. Rather, the unicorn shows up at the chip shop and orders the cod.”
–Elizabeth Bear