Allan Dyen-Shapiro
Meltwater and Overturning Circulation: Allan digests James Hansen's latest paper
A few weeks ago, I linked on my author Facebook profile (do friend me via the link at the bottom of this page) to the latest paper from...
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Allan Dyen-Shapiro
Science Fiction Author
Allan Dyen-Shapiro
- Apr 30, 2016
Taking notes as an intellectual holds court: cool ideas Ben Bova shared on an OASIS Panel
Ben Bova was one of the great authors from the Golden Age of Science Fiction, back when all was spaceships and scientists saving the...
Allan Dyen-Shapiro
- Apr 15, 2016
Allan does a taste test: Evaluating Beyond Beef Beefy Crumbles and Beast Burgers
I really wanted to like this stuff. It sounded like a great idea: extract protein and other components from pea and other vegetables,...
Allan Dyen-Shapiro
- Apr 14, 2016
Climate change and corals: the link the newspapers didn't give you
The combination of global climate change, an unusually strong El Niño event, and other factors affecting water temperature was recently...
Allan Dyen-Shapiro
- Apr 8, 2016
The next big viral epidemic--science and science fiction
It was the beginning of the new millennium, and an expatriate Russian passionately expounded on the tragedy his new company was set up to...
Allan Dyen-Shapiro
- Apr 4, 2016
Remembering Kirby, an elegy in prose for one most prosaic
Noted clarinetist Kirby Miller passed away last night at his home in Provo, Utah. Miller was best known as the founder of the Catatonic...
Allan Dyen-Shapiro
- Apr 3, 2016
Navigating between Scylla and Charybdis: How do you avoid cultural appropriation and white-washing
The late Columbia professor Edward Said introduced a useful term with his publication of Orientalism in 1978. To quote this work,...
Allan Dyen-Shapiro
- Apr 1, 2016
On the Everglades part 4: Sulfate and methylmercury
Back in my scientist days, I had a colleague at the U. of Georgia with a fascinating and important idea. He had been told of a genetic...
Allan Dyen-Shapiro
- Mar 20, 2016
On the Everglades Part 3: the science behind the salty language
To the Buddha's proverb, "A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost...
Allan Dyen-Shapiro
- Mar 13, 2016
Update: science is now free
Last week, I posted, comparing/contrasting the situation in science with that in fiction in terms of freedom of information. The position...
Allan Dyen-Shapiro
- Mar 11, 2016
On the Everglades Part 2: What's wrong with Lake O water?
The tagline of New Yorker writer and comedian Andy Borowitz used to be that there's a fine line between social media marketing and...
Allan Dyen-Shapiro
- Mar 10, 2016
Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. On the undervaluing of writing and information
Information wants to be free. Information deserves to be free. So sayeth the Hacker's Code. And yet, when one tries to apply this in...
Allan Dyen-Shapiro
- Feb 26, 2016
Toward a new theory of value
Stephen Hawking, world-renown physicist and truly funny Big Bang Theory guest star, said the following yesterday: "If machines produce...
Allan Dyen-Shapiro
- Feb 19, 2016
S.G was here: Ozymandias reloaded, now self-aware
The season 2 opener of AMC's sequel to Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, aired this week, beginning, as it did last season, with a...
Allan Dyen-Shapiro
- Feb 16, 2016
On the Everglades Part I: Geography needed to understand massive changes to an ecosystem
You need to care about the Everglades. I know, some of you are reading this from different continents, and I'm posting about something in...
Allan Dyen-Shapiro
- Feb 15, 2016
Are you owned by your employer? Have you been reduced to their tool?
The evidence is in: consuming soda and other products laden with high fructose corn syrup is contributing mightily to diabetes....
Allan Dyen-Shapiro
- Feb 15, 2016
On the demise of DuPont Central Research and the Implications for America's role in science funding
With the impending merger of DuPont with Dow, the decision has been made to largely dismantle the DuPont's research complex in...
Allan Dyen-Shapiro
- Feb 12, 2016
Lucifer can't find more interesting debauched, evil folks? In Los Angeles?
Three episodes in to the new FOX show, Lucifer, and I've decided to keep watching. It was touch and go after episode 2. This show is...
Allan Dyen-Shapiro
- Feb 8, 2016
My new website and blog
I've reached the point that I now need a website for my fiction career. Welcome. Here you'll find a list of all the short stories I've...
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