Hobbits in the News: Discovery of Homo Floresiensis still puzzling anthropologists
Footage from India’s Moon Landimg
Scott Edelman shares a photo from ConFrancisco, the 51st Worldcon (Hugo Cake)
“Dead” star has a pulse. An unusual astronomical find unraveled
NASA crew splashes down after 6 month mission
Paul Di Filippo shares a cover reveal
Bruce Richard Gillespie recounts a fanzine scanning session
Melina M Snodgrass wants you to know her Wild Cards graphic novel will hit in October
Canadian friends Garth Spencer and R. Graeme Cameron share this Canadian Events Calendar
SMOF News, Issue 3, Volume 1 released
Is AI coming for your job? Maybe, if your job is on this list
Well, maybe we aren’t going back to the Moon after all: SLS “too expensive”
Now that India’s Chandrayaan-3 is on the Moon, what did it find?
Experiment successfully manufactures oxygen on Mars
There are three ways to recover asteroid samples – this is one
Speaking of asteroid samples – one will be returning to Earth in just a few days
Watch the skies – IF you want to see comet Nishimura (only comes around once every 430 years)
More comet-watching suggestions And even more! (I think astronomers want you to see this…)
Taking a different perspective on mythological gods
Chris Garcia makes the case for Fanzines
A look at how Ted Chiang’s story became a movie
Dinosaur legs are grown on a chicken embryo. Lots and lots of thoughts on this one: “Bet they taste just like chicken!” “Who will get the Dino-wings franchise? ” Why do I keep on hearing lectures on chaos theory in Jeff Goldbum’s voice?
1.4 million years ago, our ancestors were making stone balls. Archaeologists are still looking for the wickets and mallets
According to at least one Guardian reporter, Star Wars is going “from bad to worse”
Sad news for a Fannish Icon: The Hunt Valley Inn, home to many a Balticon, will be no more
ClarkesWorld suggest ways readers can obtain their issues
A new Dickheads podcast has been released
An interesting analysis of the flaw in every single adaptation of H.G. Well’s The War of the Worlds
Daisy Ridley is returning in another Star Wars property
