Bees can recognize human faces, study finds More pseudo-news about animal superpowers. Like the ability of pigeons to distinguish painter’s styles, this is interesting for entirely different reasons than the general audience will think reading the article – rather than showing some uncanny humanness in bees, it shows the algorithmic generalityof some problems, and misleads […]
Vielleicht würde es, wenn man mehr davon wüsste, beklommen still werden um dieses Hauptwort “Geist” (Robert Musil, Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften) Vielleicht aber auch nicht. Ohnehin fragwürdig, ob ausgerechnet der Autor dieses geschwätzigen Ziegelsteins sich über beklommene Stille verbreiten sollte.
Simak won the Hugo in 1964 for this quiet piece. Enoch Wallace, a civil war veteran from southwestern Wisconsin, is chosen by Galactic Central to operate a way station on earth, where alien lifeforms pass through on their way elsewhere. While there is a dramatic plot, Simak clearly puts the emphasis on fleshing out the […]