What does the first review of A Dance With Dragons say?
Publisher’s Weekly has published the first (and slightly spoilerific) review of A Dance with Dragons. The general vibe of the review is positive, but it suggests that the novel has the same ‘feel’ as A Feast for Crows, despite more important events due to the book’s focus on more popular and plot-centric characters like Tyrion,…
A horrifying Samuel Beckett short story…in 3D?
Grasping onto a torch I peer into a world of naked bodies. One grimaces at me and bangs his head against a wall. Others hardly stir: instead, they stare at the ground in despair. I am gazing at the virtual world of Unmakeablelove, a 3D interactive simulation based on Samuel Beckett’s short prose work The…
This is what the U.S. AIDS epidemic looks like
A new interactive map of U.S. cases shows that HIV is probably more prevalent in your neighborhood than you think. It has been just 30 years since the first cases of HIV were diagnosed. The disease is no longer a death sentence, but it’s probably more prevalent in your neighborhood than you think. Don’t believe…
The physics of the ketchup drip
“In contrast with simple liquids such as water, milk, honey, which easily flow as a continuous jet when poured from a vessel, pasty materials such as mayonnaise, mustard, ketchup, puree, etc., fall by fits and starts in a wide range of flow rates.” One of the very few formal studies to investigate such fits and…