Norwescon was in Seattle Easter week. World Horror Convention 2008 was last week in Salt Lake City. Both offered some SF in classroom related panels. My next...
AboutSF has won approval from the Labor Day World Convention in Denver, for a full day presentation of its "Teaching Science Fiction: A Portable Workshop." If...
An older book is Balance of Trade by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller. It is a coming of age novel. A book to recommend to teachers of special education to assist...
That's terrific news! ________________________________ From: rff@yahoogroups.com [mailto:rff@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Gunn, James E Sent: Wednesday, April...
Bellamy, Maria-Englis...
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Apr 3, 2008 11:50 am
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G'day, This is a rather neat collection. Of course, they didn't touch another horrible example: THE CORE! So bad. Wombat ALBACON 08 Chairman +1-518-456-5242 ...
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Apr 4, 2008 8:45 pm
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This article by Robert M. Geraci of Manhattan College was recently published in the March 2008 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion. The...
... bad. I never even got to thinking about the temperature change induced by the energy of the downdrafts in 'The Day After Tomorrow'...what I caught, right...
On the other hand terrible examples may be quite useful in a classroom setting. Actually, disruption of the North Atlantic Current is quite possible if the ...
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Apr 5, 2008 12:26 pm
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Bonjour, Whoever runs the website for French actressBridget Bardot has agreed to be friends onMy Space with me. She's 73 now, and livesin St Tropez in southern...
There is a distinct male fantasy of having more than one female.Most men can't even take care of one women - let alone several.But the guys still like to think...
Actor Charlton Heston dead at 84 Heston revealed in 2002 that he had symptoms consistent with Alzheimer's disease, saying, "I must reconcile courage and...
He was 83, not 84. 10/4/1924 - 4/5/2008 = didn't make it to his 84th birthday. Most of the news services are getting it wrong, the only big one getting it ...
Look, I appreciate the enthusiasm, but I am getting a little tired of hearing of all the famous people who have made you their friends on myspace. I had...
See, A previous posting was about Arthur C Clarke. And one before that was about Ray Bradbury. I think they both had something to do with science fiction...
... I long, long ago created a rule that sends anything from the person in question to deleted items and marks it as read. It seemed to be nothing more than...
True. But they're SF writers, and it's useful for me as a teacher. Robert ... From: Jeff Redmond <redmondjeff@...> To: rff@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sun, 6...
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Apr 6, 2008 5:30 pm
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My sentiments exactly. While I do appreciate knowing about the deaths of famous SF authors, I really don't care about who has famous friends. I would like to...
Gee Jeff, And I thought they'd be all over THIS topic. How many SF or F authors have used polygamy as part of their respective created societies? I am not...
Well, it's one thing to raise it as an issue of fantasy and anecdote, and another to raise it as a literary topic, say in the works of Heinlein. This seemed...
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Apr 6, 2008 6:32 pm
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Today I banned Jeff from RFF mailing list membership. He has been warned about off topic posts several times. The mailing list did restrict his postings in...
I wish it hadn't been necessary. It strikes me as wrong that a group that promotes Science Fiction would have to ban a member, especially since SF is often...
The Core was bad??? Aw, come on! That's no fair to us disaster-fans! lol Sky http://skysbooknewsandotherthings.blogspot.com/ ... You rock. That's why...
... Thank you David. I agree that it's regretable that this step was necessary, but I do agree that it was necessary. On Friday, I received email from an...
Andy Love
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Apr 6, 2008 11:17 pm
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Mitch Kaku's latest book "The Physics of the Impossible" touches on many science fiction ideas (FTL, teleportation, etc) - I haven't read it yet, but am...
Andy Love
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Apr 6, 2008 11:25 pm
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Hmm, well maybe terrible? :-) If you live anywhere near Albania, er, Albany, why not come to ALBACON & suggest "Disaster Films & Films as Disasters." :-) ...
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Apr 7, 2008 12:24 am
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not just according to the story, they actually are on different levels there. I had never heard that until I was in Panama and learned more about the canal....
Bellamy, Maria-Englis...
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Apr 7, 2008 11:50 am
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/11/AR200804 1103328.html The article opens: "The most important things happening in the world...
Love, Andrew E., Jr.
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Apr 13, 2008 7:02 pm
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I gave my "Science for the Future" talk today by videoteleconference to a group of middleschoolers in PA, and got them thinking about important scientific...
Andy Love
AndrewELoveJr@...
Apr 29, 2008 11:42 pm
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This article is not quite on topic, but since it concerns learning and teaching in a way, and since it's fascinating, I decided to send you this link ...
