Turkey has already blocked Richard Dawkins' website, and now.... (via): The main Turkish government agency responsible for funding science has provoked outrage by apparently censoring a magazine article on the life and work of Charles Darwin. The article was stripped from the March issue of the ...

Check out the SEEDMAGAZINE.COM. W00t! Looks nifty! What they say: Our online magazine team has been hard at work creating a new look for SEEDMAGAZINE.COM, the magazine's homepage. As you'll see, it has a ton of new features and pretty new colors. The content of the site is now divided into four depa...

Filipino blogger and writer Charles Tan has been a quiet but persistent force in the online world, producing quality interviews with some of the western world’s top science fiction and fantasy authors while working to promote speculative fiction in his own country. Tell me a little bit about yours...

Written by Dawn Foster. In a follow up to my recent post about Community Organized Events, Unconferences and BarCamps, I interviewed Audrey Eschright, a web worker with years of experience organizing a wide variety of community events. Audrey Eschright is a programmer and self-described geek, who w...

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Why are there radio stations aimed at kids? Dallas Morning News, TXCrunch Gear has an amusing post about plans to transform one New York radio station from a rock format to a pop format. The folks who own the radio station say the new format will provide "young adults" with a venue to "discover...

I'm an avid used book buyer. It's the only way to support my biblioholism. Some say that buying secondhand books is bad for authors because they see none of that money. Others say it gets their work in front of more readers. We posed the following question to this week's panelists: Q: There are argu...

Interviews & Profiles: The Nebula Awards website interviews Nebula nominee Jack McDevitt (Cauldron). @49 Writers: David Marusek (Mind Over Ship). John Scalzi turns the Whatever mike over to Carrie Ryan, author of The Forest of Hands and Teeth. SFFaudio reminds people that Ursula K. Le Guin will soon...

105 A.D. In China, Ts’ai Lun, an official of the Han Dynasty Chinese Imperial Court, invents the world’s first paper from a mixture of bamboo, fish nets, mulberry, and rags. He will eventually become wealthy after he present his paper to the Emperor Han Ho Ti. 1702 The first regularly pr...

Empire of the Sun, French edition, Denoël (1985), with cover art ‘Singapour 1945′ by Ronald Seatle. Thanks to Herve for all cover scans. Interview by Tony Cartano & Maxim Jakubowski. Translation by Dan O’Hara. The following interview, originally titled ‘Le passé compos...