fiction and non-fiction books
‘Life is Strange’ is Part two of our ‘Life’ Blog Series. In my last post, ‘What is Life?’, the first post in this series on ‘Life‘, I referenced a very interesting book by Addy Pross: “What is Life? How Chemistry Becomes Biology”. The first chapter of Pross’s book is entitled “Living Things are so Very…
Deep Time is a recent concept. As explained in this Wikipedia entry, it was coined by John McPhee in 1981 to apply to geologic time. The geologic time scale was introduced by James Hutton in the 18th century to refer to the rock record of Earth. Since then modern geologists have extended the scale back…
I was inspired to start this new series of blog posts by the question, What is life? So this is the first of a non-fiction science series featuring the subject of Life. For definitions of this topic, see here. If you Google “What is life?” you will get a very long list of references to…
[ST Ref: PT-B1-C14_240916: ‘Planetoid Trilogy’, ‘Star Island’, Chapter Fourteen: “MiniAXE Second Test” – Repeatability] MiniAXE Tests The need for a second identical test of the MiniAXE apparatus was the direct result of the strange event recounted in chapters 1 and 6 of Star Island, Book One of Planetoid Trilogy. Of course the MiniAXE test apparatus…
Blog by Barrie Cameron, Author, in which he asks the question: Where will we encounter alien languages? Non-human languages Historically, at least in recent times, we have tended to assume that it is in space where we will first encounter alien languages. Or that news of it will come from space. But what are the…
Post by author Barrie Cameron: What is full sustainability? What is full sustainability? This post focuses on this question, and what is being undertaken to achieve it for our Biosphere. This post, “What is full sustainability?”, was inspired by reading a recently published science fiction book that has as its main theme the importance of…
[ST Ref: PT-B1-C1_220512: ‘Planetoid Trilogy’, ‘Star Island’, Chapter One: “Oblivion”.] A key element in Chapter One, “Oblivion”, of my first ‘Planetoid Trilogy‘ book, ‘Star Island‘, is the ‘calibration test of the MiniAXE apparatus’. Effectively it is a science experiment. Today we take for granted that scientists and engineers use experiments to rigorously test their scientific…