Free Book Friday Tomorrow!

Free Book Friday is on, tomorrow, at 12:30 under the Washington Square arch. What greasy grub will I grab? A more important question: what cool ARC will YOU take back from your lunch break? See you there!

Why is moon dust sticky?

A recent article in the LA Times may have the answer! Charged by the sun’s rays, which have little atmosphere to impede them, the stuff gets in EVERYTHING. For more on the sun’s rays and the moon, see Gerald North’s excellent book.

Future Imperfect in Reason

I Choosing Our Own Future, from the May issue of Reason, Gregory Benford reviews Future Imperfect, glossing on David Friedman’s views on surveillance, reproduction, and other biotech issues.

xkcd Goes to Print

Wait, what?

Spurning recent trends in the reverse, web comic creator Randall Munroe will be publishing a print version of xkcd.

His decision-making processes little resemble “traditional” publishing.