Writing:
William Gibson: how I wrote Neuromancer
John Chu – Stuff I Want People To Read
Kameron Hurley:Traditional Publishing, Non-Compete Clauses & Rights Grabs
Kameron Hurley: The Sad Economics of Writing Short Fiction
Kameron Hurley:On Kindness and Conventions
On Conventions and the People that Make them Great
Strange Horizons:The 2015 Readers’ Poll Winners
Terribleminds: 25 More Hard Truths About Writing And Publishing
Terribleminds: Some Thoughts For You Mid-Career Writers Out There
Terribleminds: Self-care for writers
“note to self” by science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler
How Do You Like Your Science Fiction? Ten Authors Weigh In On ‘Hard’ vs. ‘Soft’ SF
The Expanded Universe: Character-Driven Narrative or, How to Make Fictional People Do All the Work, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
Food and Fiction (Worldbuilding)
How To Keep Writing When No One Gives A Shit
My publishing journey: Ten things I believe about writing
Online “Best of 2015” Book Lists (A list of lists!)
Kate Elliot is doing a Worldbuilding Wednesday series
Author Etiquette: Author Care – The BAD side of Creativity
The Science Fiction Writer’s Hierarchy of Doubt
Science:
Powerful Women Buried at Stonehenge
Human Brain’s Bizarre Folding Pattern Re-Created in a Vat
Neandertal–Human Trysts May Be Linked to Modern Depression, Heart Disease
107 Million Spiders Found in 4-Acre Nest at Baltimore Wastewater Plant
NASA astronaut plays space water ping pong with paddle designed by PSU student
ASU anthropologist heralded for exploring the science and social justice of mother’s milk
Life in Space: Comparing Science Fact and Science Fiction
‘Super polymer’ can change shape with body heat, lift 1000x its own weight
Loss for Words Can Be a Rare Brain Disorder, Not Alzheimer’s
The oldest physical evidence of tea ever found.
Iceman Otzi’s Maternal Genetic Line Is Now Extinct
Mammoth Find Moves Humans in Arctic Back 10,000 Years
Poor Sleep Tied to Hardened Brain Arteries in Older Adults
The Iceman’s Stomach Bug Helps Scientists Map Ancient Human Migration
Can Another Body Be Seen as an Extension of Your Own?
Chinese Tomb Yields Prosthetic Leg
Misc:
Wet Bandits Arrested After Calamitous Rainier Beach Caper
Somerset police reveal weirdest paranormal 999 calls
Amazon’s customer service backdoor
Even Transhumanist Elites Are Worried Only the Rich Will Be Able to Hack Death
The secret ‘anti-languages’ you’re not supposed to know
Pornographic 17th century sex manual with advice on ‘actions of the genitals’ goes under hammer
How growing up poor affects your approach to food forever
Taxi drivers report ‘ghost passengers’ in area devastated in 2011 tsunamiSaturation Diving
Why do people keep coming to this couple’s home looking for lost phones?
The Killer Mobile Device for Victorian Women
The Cornell University Witchcraft Collection
I’ve spent years trying to get skinny. Oprah’s Weight Watchers ads convinced me to stop.
Plane passenger snaps photo of shadowy humanoid walking on cloud
Data analysis of GitHub contributions reveals unexpected gender bias
Drink “Probably Involved” In Attempted Triceratops Theft
The Lawyer Who Became DuPont’s Worst Nightmare
What it’s like to be a single woman at 60
This is the craziest story you’ll ever hear out of North Korea
Before Google, Here’s What New Yorkers Asked The NYPL
When an Endangered Species Endangers a Culture
Buccaneer Bones: Possible Pirate Skeleton Found Under Scotland Schoolyard
Witness the Controlled Chaos of Boston Traffic, As Filmed From a Streetcar in 1906
Museum Stuff:
Archaeologists believe they’ve found artifacts from Alaska’s ‘cursed’ warship, the Neva
The Forgotten, Macabre World of Mourning Jewelry
‘Phantom girl’ in century-old pictures
Cat Funerals in the Victorian Era
The history of the world, as you’ve never seen it before (graphs)
155 Year Old Mouse Trap Claims Victim
The CIA’s secret art collection
Ghoulish secret of painting of Queen Elizabeth I’s magician revealed
Tattoo artist turned monk: not your typical art story
Somerset monks find 1793 recipe book
Prague’s creepy alchemy museum
Recipes:
The Moistest Very Vanilla Mug Cake
MINERVA ZIMMERMAN 