Nanopunk – The Science Behind the Fiction

Here it is. The first Chapters of ‘Lightning Seed’. the Dynamic Sequel to ‘Nanopunk’

The Termination Shock: 96 AU from Earth.
Eight billion miles from Earth, the Xart probe, like a gigantic serpent the length […]

The big problem with Xbox One is that by giving you more it ultimately gives the gamer much, much less.

In a nutshell, here’s how the Xbox One fails. The gamer now has to compete with everyone else in the […]

The Markov 2 Field Analyser in my book ‘Nanopunk’ is nearing realization
BBC News report the FBI is seeking to develop an early-warning system based on material “scraped” from social networks. The intention […]

Hofstadter’s butterfly – a stunning fractal pattern that describes the behaviour of electrons in a magnetic field – has been measured experimentally for the first time. The breakthrough has been made by three […]

How to run a London Clojure Dojo in 20ish easy steps
I just found this excellent page on Running a Clojure Dojo.
To further Inspire you. I urge you to check out: http://tryclj.com/ to try out the addictive, […]

These past few days I’ve been researching land mine detection technologies for a small section ‘Lightning Seed’ where a rescue troop come across a mined area not far from Groom Lake (Area 51).

Below is the best […]

An excellent starter that perfectly kicks of an interest in the brain for first-timers.
President Obama recently announced a proposal for the BRAIN initiative, a research project with lofty goals to map every […]

A quantum computer has been purchased from Burnaby, B.C.-based D-Wave Systems by a NASA-led group that aims to solve problems requiring creativity — something that conventional computers aren’t good at.

The […]

MIT engineers have transformed bacterial cells into living calculators that can compute logarithms, divide, and take square roots, using three or fewer genetic parts.Inspired by how analog electronic circuits […]

Who would have thought traveling to outer space could be such a profound experience? OK, probably everybody, but these former astronauts really articulate it in a way that was just a little mind-blowing.

The University of Michigan are running a free Online Course entitile “Fantasy and Science Fiction: The Human Mind, Our Modern World”
About the Course
Fantasy is a key term both in psychology and in the art and […]

If any person was at the forefront of bringing Fantasy to life on the screen it was Ray Harryhausen. Throughout my childhood and teenage years it was his films I completely lost myself in marvelling at the magic […]

This is a fairly long video but it’s in eleven easily watchable and self-contained episodes.
The video takes you through the ten dimensions so by the end you have a pretty good picture of what physicists are […]

I know, I know; the complete opposite of what happens in my sci-fi novel ‘Nanpunk‘

Dark Internet, Darknet, Dark Web, Deep Web 101

Dark Internet
The Dark Internet refers to network hosts on the Internet that are to all intents and purposes unreachable because a machine is turned, damaged […]

Australian scientists have developed a breakthrough technique to read information stored on single atoms that will significantly improve the accuracy of future quantum computers.

The University of NSW-led […]

“Lightning Seed”, The sequel to ‘Nanopunk’ begins in the Termination Shock. I had to do a little research to get the facts right then this article from PBS turned up.

For most of it’s lifetime, Voyager 1 has […]

The Alliance of Independent Authors’s Open Up To Indies Campaign welcomes the news that the newly established Folio Prize, with a top award of £10,000, will be accepting self-published entries.

via Indie […]