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Science writer, historian, and novelist in Colorado Springs. Three books on rare/mysterious animals, a horror novel, and acclaimed history The First Space Race: Launching the World's First Satellites. WIP is a scientific thriller about finding a prehistoric species in Alaska. Curious about every subject! Member, National Assn. of Science Writers. #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #writing #books
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The latest editions of Roald Dahl’s childrens’ books are edited to remove mean-spirited words like “fat”, to update cultural references today’s youngsters might not un…

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@idoubtit @llewelly There's still a plane in the world for high-quality books: maybe arising from the Spooky Geology blog, or the weekly weird, or simply from the weird humans you've encountered (last book only scratched the surface.) Or fiction. No one's ever written about something like a high school skeptics club.
@maggiefox Minuteman officers serve in buried command capsules miles away from the nearest missiles: they are never in close proximity to nuclear weapons.
@kawulf @ProPublica There's a good movie to be made out of this. What if an Indigenous scholar, negotiating for a return of artifacts, gets so frustrated he turns to stealing them back. Is it stealing? What acts are justified? Would be great drama. (Piggybacking on a post I saw from SmudgeTheInsultCat about needing a reverse Indiana Jones who loots museums and gives the artifacts back.)
@SmudgeTheInsultCat Actually, there's a very good movie idea in there. What means are justified to get artifacts back to their original culture? What are roadblocks that prevent it being done more often. It's very believable an indigenous scholar who tries to negotiate for artifacts gives up and removes them himself.
@EmersonWBaker I don't recall where we camped, though, as I was only six when we left Maine. My grandfather had a fishing cabin built on a little lake, and my dad took us into what a six year old thinks of as wilderness but was probably a well-established campground.
@inqbiol @bookstodon On the list!
@idoubtit We your humble fans will be happy for what we can get. You my friend are a chlorastrolite of common sense standing out from an ever-eroding pile of schist.
@EmersonWBaker Now there's a term I haven't heard in a long time. Born in Bangor. Where are you?