12/30/09
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Steven Eriksoni intervjuu
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Patrick on avaldanud oma blogis intervjuu ulmekirjanik Steven Eriksoniga, kes räägib oma olevatest ja tulevatest raamatutest ning nendega seonduvast.What's the progress report regarding THE CRIPPLED GOD? Any tentative release date at this point?
Hope to be done by the beginning of the summer. It's coming along just fine. My son has read what I've done to date, and looks at me and says: "It's all going down, isn't it?" And no, he doesn't mean that in any negative sense. But he's right. It's all coming down. It's all coming down.
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Katherine Harmon tutvustab Scientific Americani veebisaidil teadustööd, millest koorub välja, et vastupidiselt laialt levinud arvamusele ei vähenda hõlmikpuud (Ginkgo biloba) sisaldavad toidulisandid eakatel inimestel vaimunõtruse ja muude vananemisega kaasnevate sarnaste probleemide tekke riski."Compared with placebo, the use of G. biloba, 120 milligrams twice daily, did not result in less cognitive decline in older adults," the authors of the study concluded.
Kuidas võita pohmakat
Christopher Wanjek tutvustab LiveScience'is erinevaid võimalusi võitlemaks liigsest alkoholitarvitamisest põhjustatud hommikuse kehvaseisundiga ja leiab vastavateemaliste teadusuuringute abiga, et pohmakat saab küll leevendada, ent mitte kaotada.The punch line is that the day after heavy drinking will always be miserable, no matter what you try, and the only solution is to not get so drunk in the first place — well, at least until scientists get their act together and create a pill to end hangovers. Don't count on that while you're counting down the seconds this New Year's Eve.
12/29/09
2009 kui lühijutuaasta
Chris Power selgitab Guardiani raamatublogis, miks võib 2009. kirjandusaastat pidada lühijuttude aastaks.Alice Munro won the Man Booker International, Raymond Carver's widow published a revised edition of What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, and fine collections appeared from old hands and debutantes. This year proved that reports of the short story's death have been greatly exaggerated.
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Intervjuu füüsik Frank A. Wilczekiga
Claudia Greifus vestleb New York Timesis nobelistis füüsiku Frank A. Wilczekiga, kes räägib muuhulgas oma lapsepõlvest, hetkel füüsikamaailmas toimuvast ning enese poolt kirjutatavast põnevusromaanist.Also, I’m writing a mystery novel I’m calling “The Attraction of Darkness.” The central thread of it is that there are four physicists, two men and two women, who collaborate and discover what dark matter is. For this, they ought to get the Nobel Prize. But the rules are that at most three people can share it. One of the four dies, supposedly a suicide, but then, maybe not. I’m hanging a lot of sex and music and philosophy on it.
Desinfitseerimine tekitab superbakteri
LiveScience tutvustab teadustööd, millest ilmneb, et desifitseerimine võib tekitada baktereid, mis on tundetud nii kasutatud puhastusainele kui ka levinud antibiootikumile.The research team focused on Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a bacterium responsible for a range of infections in people with weakened immune systems. When the scientists added increasing amounts of disinfectant to P. aeruginosa cultures, the bacteria adapted to survive not only the disinfectant but also the antibiotic called ciprofloxacin.
E-raamat lõi Amazonis paberraamatut
Katie Allen teatab Guardianis, et Amazoni e-raamatute müük ületas jõulude paiku esmakordselt traditsiooniliste paberraamatute müügi.Spare a thought for the humble hardback this Christmas. It seems the traditional giftwrapped tome is being trumped by downloads, after Amazon customers bought more e-books than printed books for the first time on Christmas Day. As people rushed to fill their freshly unwrapped e-readers – one of the top-selling gadgets this festive season – the online retailer said sales at its electronic book store quickly overtook orders for physical books. Its own e-reader, the Kindle, is now the most popular gift in Amazon's history.
12/28/09
12/27/09
Mis on kuum aastal 2010
Observer on kokku pannud nimekirja kuumadest kultuurisündmustest aastal 2010.Now that 2009 is so last year - well, almost - it's time to look forward to the next 12 months and the start of a new decade. Here we present our guide to 2010: the most promising newcomers, how the old guard are staying ahead of the game, plus the latest creative thinking in the arts, technology, politics and culture.
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