Sarah Kanning

If you’ve been watching Joss Whedon’s new show Dollhouse this spring, here’s a little science tidbit for you:  Brain Power - Brain Researchers Open Door to Editing Memory
Of course, they are still REALLY far away from editing memories in humans, but they seem to have been able to erase (in a broad/blunt way, at least) [...]

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Read a bit on Skepchick about the “Quiverfull” movement the other day (go ahead, it’s a quick read, I’ll wait right here), and the whole concept of this group and others like it existing today highlights the need to understand culture as a response to environment and an attempt at solving real-world problems people are [...]

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Please allow me to wax geeky for just a moment about a tool I think writers may find extremely useful.
Juice, a new plug-in for Firefox from Linkool Labs, puts a sidebar on your browser. Highlight any bit of text, drag-and-drop it on the sidebar, and a tabbed Google search (for web, images, news, videos, and [...]

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Drat! I was all ready to sing the praises of The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series as a useful tool for writers, having read the volume on life in Chaucer’s England by Forgeng and McLean (quite readable but detailed), but the books on Elizabethan England and the Vikings (yes, that’s two separate books) don’t [...]

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So I picked up this book at the library, Elemental mind: human consciousness and the new physics, by Nick Herbert, and it’s pretty interesting. It’s about how studies of quantum mechanics and human consciousness might fruitfully intersect, and Herbert uses as a literary device the story of a sentient robot named Claire who strives to [...]

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