Vargas Llosa: Fiction provides an escape, and makes the impossible possible
Peruvian writer and winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in LiteratureMario Vargas Llosa, gave a moving Nobel Prize lecture, “In Praise of Reading and Fiction“, about the importance of fiction to his life and to humanity. Says Vargas Llosa: But thanks to literature, to the consciousness it shapes, the desires and longings it inspires, and…
The Best of the Year in Space
It’s been a big year for the space sciences. The first privately-held spacecraft orbited our world, the blackest material in history was created, researchers expanded the list of possible sources of life threefold; and that was just in December. 1. Hubble Detects Mysterious Spaceship-Shaped Object Traveling at 11,000MPH – February 2nd Hubble has discovered a…
A Different Kind of Christmas Story
I was sitting in a storefront on the coldest night so far this year, light snow coming down, waiting for a Chinatown bus to New York that was already a half-hour late. Not where you’d expect to buy an iPhone, but… The only other guy in the place was an older dude in a torn…
