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Are you ready? Tales from Pleasant Grove By Steven L. Peck You’ve never read short stories like this. Really. Dragons asleep in Battle Creek? Knife fights as a Relief Society lesson? The Icelandic Fay Queen of Mount Baldy? A Pinewood Derby like none you’ve ever seen Get ready for a new look …
I’m pleased to announce that Gilda Trillim was selected as the Association of Mormon Letters’ 2017 Novel Award at Friday’s award ceremony. Previously, I posted this for groups wanting to read it, and this award is further evidence that it is worth reading. You are probably thinking that it was selected as the winner because …
Join me! To celebrate Gilda Trillim’s being a finalist for both the AML Best novel award and the Whitney Award, I’ve contacted Kattrim Mender and obtained some photos of his/her’s travels visiting some of the places where the events of Gilda Trillim’s life took place. Of course, we can never be a hundred percent sure, …
Your scientific horoscope: Today is a good day to work on that time-travel machine you’ve had on the back burner. However, if you are visited by your future self, and he/she tells you to stop, don’t listen. There is little evidence that in the future you will not be paranoid, delusional, and a gifted liar. …
Your Scientific Horoscope: In general the universe is thought to consist of two things: Stuff (e.g, dragonflies, pancakes, electrons, clouds, etc.) and Non-stuff (e.g., the gap between protons and electrons, empty sets, etc.). Today vote for your favorite. If you had to live without one, which would it be? Gemini, I know you have trouble …
Your Scientific Horoscope: If you started with 5 parthenogenetic flies (females can self fertilize their eggs) that don’t need to eat, and they had 2 children every 5 days, you would have an earth-sized ball of flies in about a year and a half. Today, think about how hard it would be to have a …
Your Scientific Horoscope: Hildegard von Bingen was a Twelfth Century nun, poet, naturalist, musician, painter, (a real Renaissance woman–before the Renaissance!). She had terrible migraines that she interpreted as messages from on high. She turned her visual disturbances into visions and painted those visions. She turned the crushing pain into music still played nine centuries …
Your Scientific Horoscope: Researchers have discovered recently that spiderwebs don’t just stick to prey insects, they fly toward them when the little victim get close because the sticky coating on the web has a small electrostatic charge (you know, like those little individual candy wrappers you try to throw into the garbage and they fly …
Your Scientific Horoscope: Scientists have discovered that sometime today you will face a time traveling beast both fierce and cunning. Your task will be to outwit it by doing things today before it arrives that will reverberate down the timeline into the future and destroy it. It will take all your wits, imagination and cunning. …