Meet Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson, president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. Previously posted as "Strong Force."
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A US researcher finds perfect quasicrystal patterns...in Islamic architecture. Ecclesiastes said: "there is no [new] thing under the sun."
Gunbad-I Kabud tomb tower, Maragh
She gave us a reason to love ourselves,
Emerging in the 80s post-Civil Rights, post-loss of
Medgar, Malcolm and Martin, if Michael was the “King of Pop”…
She was definitely “Our Queen.”
What 1980 male college freshman
Didn’t calculate that we were just
One year older than the voice that
Belted from her lithe frame, fantasize
“What we’d do” with 5 minutes of our
Best Mack if we had a chance
(Past her Bodyguard) to step to her,
As if she was “saving all her love for []”…
Her faux feud with Maria Cary set the
Diva pattern for Rihanna, Beyoncé, Jennifer, Latifah and Eve…
Yet, didn’t we laugh (instead of pray)
When she married Bobby, and starred in a
So-called “reality” show, showcasing her
Private demons for public display?
Post-Bobby, with the baby (Bobby-Christina),
She could never hit “the notes” she used to,
Her interviews shaken versions of
Her star’s former hue.
The human voice has depth and range
That cannot be enhanced or explained
In a digital software mix program or
Corporate studio...
Some things of exquisite beauty are
Born in choir robes, Sunday solos and
Christmas shows,
Before the Clive Davis’ discover angels,
Among us,
When NAPHESH kicked first breath
In Eden
And Deity pronounced self-awareness
To a creation with mind, will, imagination,
Emotion and intellect – defining the
Earthiness that we would call…soul…
The best of Adam’s rib performs now…celestial shows.
Whitney Houston, 1963 – 2012
Greetings, all;
Along with being a Trekkie and Whovian, I am also a writer. I'm working on an original sci-fi novel, but that's not what this is about. A few years ago, I discovered Fan Fiction, and I've written some stuff that actually surprised me! I invite you to check out my stories at http://www.fanfiction.net/~computersteve . I would love to hear your thoughts and comments.
The latest is a Dr. Who piece entitled "QED" that features David Tennant as the doctor and Freema Ageman as Martha.
Thanks!
African American screenwriter Tony Puryear is writing a new comics series for Dark Horse Publishing. Recently, Puryear wrote scripts for Jerry Bruckheimer's upcoming Buck Rogers big screen adaptation, and the upcoming Lady Scarface film for RKO Pictures. He is also an artist, and created the official campaign poster for Hillary Clinton's presidential bid.
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Screenwriter Tony Puryear creates edgy graphic novel Concrete Park for Dark Horse Comics
February 8, 2012 in Book Previews, Media Images
New sci-fi epic Concrete Park, written and drawn by Hollywood screenwriter, to appear in legendary anthology magazine Dark Horse Presents.
Tony Puryear wrote the 1996 Arnold Schwarzenegger smash hit Eraser, becoming the first African American screenwriter to pen a $100 million summer blockbuster. Since that time, he’s written action and sci-fi scripts for a who’s who of Hollywood A listers, from Will Smith to Mel Gibson to Jerry Bruckheimer, and adapted storied sci-fi properties like Fahrenheit 451 and Buck Rogers for the big screen. Now Puryear brings his writing and art talents to the world of graphic novels, with Concrete Park for Dark Horse Presents. Concrete Park, Tony Puryear’s first comics project, appears in Dark Horse Presents #8 from Dark Horse Comics.
“Concrete Park is a sprawling epic,” Puryear says. “It’s the sci-fi story I’ve been waiting to tell. It’s a perfect fit with Dark Horse Presents, the legendary anthology comic that served as a launch pad for innovative work by the biggest names in comics, including Frank Miller (Sin City, 300) and Mike Mignola (Hellboy). I’m honored to be in the company of these amazing world builders, and happy Mike Richardson of Dark Horse believes Concrete Park belongs with them.”
Concrete Park is a dark and provocative near-future story. It takes place in a turbulent mega-city on a distant desert planet (think Cairo or Rio in space). Young human exiles from Earth must fight to make a new world there. They are young, violent and ten billion miles from home. In its ambitious scope, it resembles nothing so much as George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series, but with favelas and aliens, cops and cyborgs, ghettos and gangs, instead of castles and armies.
Concrete Park was co-created by Puryear and his wife, actress Erika Alexander (Living Single, Déjà Vu), and her brother, writer Robert Alexander, with Puryear also handling the art chores on the book.
Tony Puryear is the first African American screenwriter to write a $100 million summer movie blockbuster. His 1996 hit Eraser catapulted him into a career writing pictures for A listers Jerry Bruckheimer (Buck Rogers), Will Smith, and Oliver Stone. Puryear’s adaptation of the Ray Bradbury classic Fahrenheit 451 for Oscar-winning director Mel Gibson has circulated in Hollywood for years as a legendary unproduced script. His latest script is Lady Scarface for the new RKO Pictures.
A talented artist and designer, Puryear was recently honored when his official campaign poster for Hillary Clinton’s historic 2008 presidential run was added to the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery.
Along with Tony Puryear, other writers and artists featured in Dark Horse Presents #8 include John Arcudi, Brian Wood, Howard Chaykin, Neal Adams, Andi Watson, Al Gordon, MJ Butler and Beau Smith, along with artists Duncan Fegredo (who drew the cover), Geof Darrow, Kristian Donaldson, Thomas Yeates, Mark Wheatley and Eduardo Barreto.
Born on November 23, 1923 in Chicago, Illinois, J. Ernest Wilkins, Jr. entered the University of Chicago to study mathematics at the age of 13. He received his B.S. degree as a Phi Beta Kappa graduate in 1940 at the age of 16, his M.S. degree in 1941 at the age of 17, and his Ph.D. degree in December 1942 at the age of 19. In 1942 he was also a Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study. This was the beginning of one of the most exemplary careers of scholarship and application of an American mathematician/physicist/engineer in the 20th century.
A biological computer made entirely of biological molecules. Another WHODATHUNKIT, and now: who's going to write it?
See below. :-)
Exclusive 1st look at DC Comics/Vertigo's intergalactic Mystery in Space
Orginally posted at: http://www.phathom.com/2012/02/dc-comicsvertigos-intergalactic-mystery-space/
Journey to the edge of the abyss with a story written and drawn by Mike Allred! Arrive in the middle of an intergalactic space heist with a story written and drawn by Paul Pope! Loaded with unsettling stories that will hijack your imagination and and take you to strange mysterious places Mystery in Space will also include stories by fantasy and science fiction writer Nnedi Okorafor with art by Michael Wm. Kaluta, novelist and comic book writer Robert Rodi with art by Sebastian Fiumara, as well as Ann Nocenti, Fred Harper, Andy Diggle, Davide Gianfelice, Steve Orlando, Francesco Trifogli, Ming Doyle and others.
Here's the exclusive reveal the variant cover by the awesomely talented Mike Allred, (Madman, iZombie). The main cover will be by Ryan Sook.
Greetings i am a gifted character artist looking to branch out and meet new people. I have an idea and i am looking for a writer who can see my vision of my character and his story. I am looking for serious minded individuals please i have been having this on my mind for years now, and i just don't know what direction i can take this in so i am looking for a bit of guidance and direction on how i should take this.
Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson is the youngest Director in the history of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City. Like most of us, he had a "price" to pay to get to where he is: he merely "paid the extra social tax." Go to 29:30 of the embed to listen to his remarkable story of perserverence and tenacity.
Does supersolidity exist? It is a quantum state of matter.
"Education was the secular god of the black community"(a quote I remember, but have no sources for it).
"Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
"When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions." Carter G. Woodson
Latin for "Not Alone." Apparently, an uprising against Elsevier, a massive online scientific journal. 2,400 academics have refused to publish anything, siting cost mostly. See details at link and link on the blog.
Dr. Mae C. Jemison, MD: not only was she an astronaut, not only a medical doctor, sister studied African and African American Studies. How more down could you be (and smart)?
The Limit as it Approaches...is a term from Calculus, that describes essentially the definition of a derivative. Sadly, it is how science is now: essentially dominated by white males with females of all cultures and minorities numerically...minorities.
Dr. Elvira Williams is featured on this post.
She believed in me and taught me General Physics II and Electromagnetic Field Theory. This is not my Diaspora post, but it is related. More of "other than" have to represent in science and speculative fiction.
Let’s talk about the social commentary of teen dystopian literature. What the heck is it anyway? Dystopian literature takes a social problem and extrapolates that problem to a frightening extreme. I grew up reading Ray Bradbury but today’s craze is all about the Hunger Games. Everybody is talking about it and publishers want to find the next one. Teen dystopian fiction sells big but it’s also good. I love dystopian fiction but let me back up a bit. Let me put this in perspective. People step back from me when I tell them that I’m a Native Detroiter. Read More Visit:
http://www.aliciamccalla.com/blog/73-the-state-of-black-scifi-2012-why-i-love-teen-dystopian-scifi-
"Living well is the best revenge." (George Herbert)
LETTER FROM A FREEDMAN TO HIS OLD MASTER.
[Written just as he dictated it.]
Dayton, Ohio, August 7, 1865.
To my old Master, Colonel P. H. Anderson, Big Spring, Tennessee.
Sir: I got your letter, and was glad to find that you had not forgotten Jourdon, and that you wanted me to come back and live with you again, promising to do better for me than anybody else can. I have often felt uneasy about you. I thought the Yankees would have hung you long before this, for harboring Rebs they found at your house. I suppose they never heard about your going to Colonel Martin's to kill the Union soldier that was left by his company in their stable. Although you shot at me twice before I left you, I did not want to hear of your being hurt, and am glad you are still living. It would do me good to go back to the dear old home again, and see Miss Mary and Miss Martha and Allen, Esther, Green, and Lee. Give my love to them all, and tell them I hope we will meet in the better world, if not in this. I would have gone back to see you all when I was working in the Nashville Hospital, but one of the neighbors told me that Henry intended to shoot me if he ever got a chance.
The rest of Jourdon Anderson's exquisite reply here.
Some data putting to rest the myth of the young entrepreneur, and that everyone over 35 is washed up (not!):
This concerns so-called 'hard-science fiction,' using current technologies to tell a story with a future focus:
I used to love Republican politics. I have always admired the Republican primary process for the way its leaders and frontrunners, unlike the Democratic primary candidates, seem to draw energy, support and money by being less politically correct than the next guy. It's a damn-the-torpedoes attitude that has all but disappeared from our sanitized and boring political language. The more passionate and less socially acceptable a candidate becomes outside of their party, the stronger they become inside the base.It's an adherence to stroking the personalities of your faithful and not acknowledging the values of the outside that interests me so.
It's the American Way and probably why our politics skews rightward. The more passionate they are, though damaging to general election candidates, the more regarded they become within the right. Liberals are the opposite. The more politically correct, middle of the road, grounded and normal, the more support they garner. We want our candidates to be accepting, motherly figures who will console and hopefully (mostly in vain) bring the fickle moderates into the fold. I have envied the Republicans their brilliant and at the same time profoundly ignorant brand and execution. However, over the last several years, Republican political rhetoric has mutated into a kind of trickle-down insanity that has more and more translated itself in random acts of violence.
See more at: Grand Old Psychos, Steve King, Truthout
