Welcome to Freestyle Friday, where I post a semi-random roundup of stuff, much of which I find cool, interesting, noteworthy or even appalling. Today we start with some free books from my publisher, Creativia.
Free books!
- Young Hearts, by Nick Sweet
- The Stones of Fire and Water, by V.M. Sang
- This Beautiful Love, by Amanda Kaitlyn
- The Running Game, by L.E. Fitzpatrick
- The Turning, by Phil Price
This week’s science:
Mars Express Gets Festive: A Winter Wonderland on Mars
In other words, Santa’s a Martian. I see the perfect mash-up movie now… Tom Hanks voices the Conductor in Martian Express: Houston, We Have A Winter Wonderland.
Astronomers Discover A New Class of Super-Earths
I think this headline should read “Astronomers Discover Super-Earths That Are Basically Giant Rubies!”
Rogue drones have brought Gatwick airport to a standstill
The shape of things to come? I expect anonymously-controlled drones to become a much bigger hassle over the next few years.
Congress Passes $1.2B Quantum Computing Bill
Somehow I feel like this is the President’s Mommy saying, “No, you can’t have any Wall. Eat your Science or you go to bed hungry.” Ha, I wish.
Discovery of recent Antarctic ice sheet collapse raises fears of a new global flood
I think Maynard James Keenan said it best in Tool’s song Ænema, “Learn to swim. Learn to swim. Learn to swim.”
NerdArt:
Lastly for this week, here are a few pieces of cool NerdArt that I liked.
