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This has been a difficult week in many ways, some surprising; it has also been a surprisingly generous week as well. There are many people out there about whom I care very deeply, and who care about me, as well. Sometimes I need to hold on to thoughts like that, very tightly.

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Could this be the end of cancer? And again I say:

1) God, I hope so, mixed with

2) This is how far too many science fiction stories have started...


Either way, fuck cancer.

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MIT researchers have created a new imaging system that can acquire visual data at a rate of one trillion exposures per second. That’s fast enough to produce a slow-motion video of a burst of light traveling the length of a one-liter bottle, bouncing off the cap and reflecting back to the bottle’s bottom.

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Russell Hoban, author of the Emmet Otter's Jugband Christmas book (as well as Riddley Walker, The Mouse and His Child, and other novels), rest in peace.