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Archive for March, 2009

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A Case of Consilience

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009

I love anthologies of science fiction short stories – a chance to read new stories by familiar authors, as well as the opportunity to find out about new authors to follow up at the library. Just reading "Year’s Best SF 11" by David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer which was published back in 2006, and really enjoyed the following stories.

A Case of Consilience by Ken MacLeod intentionally picks up on James Blish’s pondering of religion in outer space in A Case of Conscience (See Greenflame: Books from Blogs). You can read it over here.

Secondly, David Langford’s New Hope for the Dead deals with the issue of transhumanist uploading – and more particularly who pays for that, a point I rarely/never see written about in their literature. Again, you can read the story over here at New Hope for the Dead.

Posted by stepheng, in Faith & Religion, Science Fiction, Transhumanism 1 Comment »

Very, very busy…

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

Very, very busy for the past couple of weeks. Normal blogging may resume next week.

Posted by stepheng, in General No Comments »

Kindle and Comics

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

Newsarama.com : Could Kindle Kill Comics? e-Reading Devices Cloud Future raises some of the possibilities (positive and negative) digital comics as a product for readers like the Kindle might bring.

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The Netbook Effect

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

I love the idea of netbooks, though I’m not ready to get one myself. I don’t think the infrastructure is quite here yet to support them as an everywhere tool (e.g. the cost of data via wireless or 3G), but one would be very useful to throw in my backpack to work in things or do presentations without having the weight of the laptop.

See The Netbook Effect: How Cheap Little Laptops Hit the Big Time

Posted by stepheng, in Digital Technology No Comments »

SGM Journal Refresh – Ecological themes

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

Related to the previous post, Spiritual Growth Ministries recent issue of Refresh, their journal of contemplative spirituality has an issue titled “Earth and Spirit” that looks at spirituality and ecology.

Posted by stepheng, in Environment, Faith & Religion No Comments »

Eco-Congregation

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

Interesting set of resources by A Rocha UK for resourcing churches ecologically.

See Free Resources | Eco-Congregation.

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Ebru.TV episodes: “Exploring Transhumanism” and “Science and Religion”

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

Ebru TV have a couple of interesting episodes online as part of their Matter and Beyond series.

See

Hat tip to: http://www.sentientdevelopments.com/2009/02/matter-and-beyond-explores.html

Posted by stepheng, in Science, Technology & Religion, Transhumanism No Comments »

The gospel according to Darwin

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

The gospel according to Darwin (Richard Dawkins) is an interesting article by Richard Dawkins on responses to Jerry Coyne’s book Why Evolution Is True.

Posted by stepheng, in Darwin, Science, Technology & Religion No Comments »

Green Lantern on the big (and little) screen

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

I enjoyed Justice League: The New Frontier so this looks promising Newsarama.com : Warner Bros Announces Green Lantern: First Flight.

And, seeing GL on the big screen looks like it might be getting closer too – Newsarama.com : Warners’ Green Lantern, Jonah Hex Get Release Dates.

Posted by stepheng, in Comics No Comments »

The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion – Multimedia

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

A couple of links from the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion.

Firstly, The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion – Multimedia has a bunch of audio and video materials from their seminars.

Secondly, Test of FAITH is a project developing materials on science and faith that are relevant and accessible for churches.

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