Liminal Fiction · @liminalfiction
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WRITER FUEL: How many habitable planets are there in the Milky Way? A new study suggests the number is huge...
https://www.limfic.com/2023/09/11/writer-fuel-how-many-habitable-planets-does-the-milky-way-have/
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Liminal Fiction · @liminalfiction
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WRITER FUEL: Scientists are discovering and resurrecting ancient viruses trapped in permafrost and frozen remains. Here are 8 'zombie' viruses that scientists have pulled from the permafrost.
https://www.limfic.com/2023/09/09/writer-fuel-how-much-of-a-rosk-are-zombie-viruses/
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Liminal Fiction · @liminalfiction
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WRITER FUEL: Astronomers recently identified asteroid 2023 FW13 as a quasi-moon, a space rock orbiting the sun nearly in tandem with Earth.
https://www.limfic.com/2023/09/06/writer-fuel-earth-has-a-quasi-moon/
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Liminal Fiction · @liminalfiction
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WRITER FUEL: Déjà vu, the feeling of having experienced something before, is very common, but why does it happen?
https://www.limfic.com/2023/09/04/writer-fuel-the-science-behind-deja-vu/
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Ray C. Keith · @rayckeith
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book review
"Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
An amusing look at the rise and fall of “Dr.” Joseph Brinkley, America’s premier quack in the 1920s and 30s. He popularized the implanting of goat testicles(!) into men to cure…impotence, I guess …
Odds and ends:
– In the early nineteenth century, there was a pretty strong anti-elite movement, to the point where licensing requirements for doctors were repealed in all but three states!
– The chief surgeon at San Quentin prison in California thought that physically unattractive people were more likely to become criminals, so he started a program to give prisoners nose jobs!
– Diploma mills were a big problem in the 1920s, but some “doctors” had bought their diplomas from widows of actual doctors and assumed their names"
@bookstodon https://gregstoll.wordpress.com/2023/09/02/charlatan-americas-most-dangerous-huckster-the-man-who-pursued-him-and-the-age-of-flimflam-review/
Liminal Fiction · @liminalfiction
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WRITER FUEL: Light is faster than anything else in the known universe, though its speed can change depending on what it's passing through. Live Science takes a look at what we know about the speed of light.
https://www.limfic.com/2023/09/01/writer-fuel-the-speed-of-light/
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Liminal Fiction · @liminalfiction
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WRITER FUEL: The Tunguska event was the biggest asteroid impact in recorded history. How did it vanish without a trace? Live Science looks at the possibilities.
https://www.limfic.com/2023/08/31/writer-fuel-what-happened-to-the-tunguska-event-asteroid/
#writerfuel #astronomy #geology #asteroid #tunguskaevent
Liminal Fiction · @liminalfiction
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WRITER FUEL: The Greek writer Plutarch proposed this question: If a ship's planks are replaced over time due to wear and tear until none of the original pieces remain, is it still the same ship?
https://www.limfic.com/2023/08/28/writer-fuel-the-ship-of-theseus/
#shipoftheseus #thougthexperiment #philosophy #writerfuel
Liminal Fiction · @liminalfiction
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WRITER FUEL: Space, outer space, and deep space — which is further out, and which is the real final frontier?
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Liminal Fiction · @liminalfiction
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WRITER FUEL: Do You Have Groundhog Day Syndrome… Groundhog Day Syndrome… Groundhog Day Syndrome?
'Groundhog Day' syndrome made a man feel like he was reliving the same events.
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Liminal Fiction · @liminalfiction
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So basically, we're all jellyfish:
WRITER FUEL: After decades of debate, scientists believe they have identified the most recent ancestor of the sister to all animals via the novel use of an analytical technique.
https://www.limfic.com/2023/08/23/writer-fuel-were-all-jellyfish/
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QueeRomance Ink · @queeromanceink
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So basically, we're all jellyfish:
WRITER FUEL: After decades of debate, scientists believe they have identified the most recent ancestor of the sister to all animals via the novel use of an analytical technique.
https://www.limfic.com/2023/08/23/writer-fuel-were-all-jellyfish/
#LimFic #LiminalFiction #WriterFuel #Writers #Authors #WritersofMastodon #StoryIdeas #Biology #Evolution #CommonAncestor
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Liminal Fiction · @liminalfiction
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WRITER FUEL: The James Webb Space Telescope caught Saturn's icy moon Enceladus spraying a 'huge plume' of watery vapor far into space — and that plume may contain chemical ingredients for life.
https://www.limfic.com/2023/08/21/writer-fuel-saturns-moon-enceladus-has-a-giant-geyser/
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Queer Sci Fi · @queerscifi
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WRITER FUEL: The James Webb Space Telescope caught Saturn's icy moon Enceladus spraying a 'huge plume' of watery vapor far into space — and that plume may contain chemical ingredients for life.
https://www.limfic.com/2023/08/21/writer-fuel-saturns-moon-enceladus-has-a-giant-geyser/
#LimFic #LiminalFiction #WriterFuel #Writers #Authors #WritersofMastodon #StoryIdeas #Astronomy #Saturn #Enceladus
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Liminal Fiction · @liminalfiction
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WRITER FUEL: New York City may be sinking under its own weight because the buildings are too heavy, scientists warn. They estimate the mass of the 1,084,954 buildings within the five boroughs of New York City is 1.68 trillion pounds.
https://www.limfic.com/2023/08/19/writer-fuel-is-new-york-city-sinking-under-its-own-weight/
#writerfuel #newyorkcity #sinking
Liminal Fiction · @liminalfiction
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WRITER FUEL: Planet killer asteroids pose no threat to Earth for at least 1,000 years — but smaller rocks could still be a problem.
#writerfuel #asteroid #planetkillers #space #earth
Liminal Fiction · @liminalfiction
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WRITER FUEL: A new study has revealed that 380 zettajoules of energy was trapped by global warming between 1971 and 2020 - the equivalent of 25 billion atomic bombs.
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Liminal Fiction · @liminalfiction
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WRITER FUEL: Astronomers have spotted a bright flash of light from a Jupiter-size world being consumed by its own star in a preview of Earth’s likely fate.
https://www.limfic.com/2023/08/14/writer-fuel-astronomers-watch-star-consume-one-of-its-planets/
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Liminal Fiction · @liminalfiction
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STT: Writers, what do you do when science outpaces your science fiction?
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Liminal Fiction · @liminalfiction
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Writer Fuel: Advanced alien civilizations could probably already tell that there's intelligent life on Earth, thanks to our cell phone towers. Will they lead aliens to Earth?
https://www.limfic.com/2023/08/12/writer-fuel-will-cell-phone-towers-lead-aliens-to-us/
#aliens #cellphonetowers #cellphones #earth #writerfuel