Wow. I've been out of it for almost 2 days now, sick with what I guess you might call a 48 hour flu. The worst part of it is that I took the week off work in order to get some writing and stuff around the house done. I was able to get some writing in, but not enough. At least I've got the remainder of today and the weekend.
Here's the latest batch of interesting stuff I came across.
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Mystery of the Off-Center Martian Ice Cap
When summer hits the south pole on Mars, only half the ice on the pole melts. This leaves behind a strangely off-center chunk of water-and-carbon-dioxide ice, as you can see in this composite satellite image of the pole in summer.
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Character Development, part II
[…] I’d like to delve a bit deeper into the types of things I do to create my protagonists and make them not only convincing, but also interesting enough to make my readers want to follow them through an entire book or series of books.
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Google Unveils Book Preview Tool
Yesterday, Google announced a new feature tied to its Book Search program, a widget-like tool called Google Previews.
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50 greatest villains in literature
Compiling a list of the 50 Greatest Villains in Literature, without too much recourse to comics and children's books, proved trickier than we'd imagined - but gosh it was fun.
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When Worlds Collide, Literally
Astronomers were checking out a star very similar to ours located about 300 light years away, in the constellation Ares, and they noticed it was surrounded by a lot of dust. Way more dust than is in our solar system.
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Study Suggests It Rained on Ancient Mars
Scientists studying the Martian landscape said yes, a river ran through it — and not just one. The ancient red planet also seems to have experienced rain, they say.
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