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Monday Links: The Secret History of Colony Collapse Disorder, Graphing Famine, and Photos from the ISS

So, one kind of business (finals) ends, and another begins. I’ve been busy getting the Kickstarter for my novel going, and thus these Monday links are up late. But do not fear, for they are here at last! A guest post on Bug Girl’s Blog talks about how Colony Collapse Disorder—that worrying trend of domestic …

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Runicfire Recap: April 25 – May 6

I’ve been crunching for finals the past few weeks, and have slipped on my Google+ and Facebook announcements. My apologies. I have, however, been continuing to pump out content here on Runicfire, and I’d like to catch up any readers who follow me on Facebook or Google+ on what they might have missed. Recap begins …

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Monday Links: Defining Time, Neurology’s Limitations, SpaceShipTwo Launches, and Northern Ireland’s New Schism

Chad Orzel at Uncertain Principles did not have time to enter this year’s Flame Challenge—a competition in which science writers and communicators explain a part of scientific knowledge in 300 or fewer words, and in a manner understandable to an 11-year-old. This year’s subject, very appropriately, is time, and although he didn’t have enough to …

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Rosaria of Venice — Choosing a Cover, and the May 24th Kickstarter

I’ll be Kickstarting Rosaria of Venice, the alternate history steampunk Renaissance novel I wrote and am now revising, this month on May 25. The proceeds are to pay for cover illustrations (front and inside) as well as editing and proofreading. While I won’t be commissioning the final works until the Kickstarter campaign finishes, I have …

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The Case for Global Warming, Part 3: How Bad Can it Get?

In my previous posts, I established, as is accepted in the scientific community, that global warming is a real phenomenon, and that human activity is what drives this warming trend. However, as alarming as the data appears, it makes sense to question what this actually means. What does a warming world look like? Would it …

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