Practical antibiotics. It doesn't have the awesome glamor of WOW, WITH THE ENIGMA WE CAN READ THEIR SECRETS, but penicillin saved an incredible number of lives.

Psst: the "go here" link at the end is broken — it's showing up with the io9.com/5698802/ prepended so it links back to here instead of to [www.gorp.com]

Wow. The color palettes are *perfect*. And she really gets the aesthetic of their faces and poses just right.

@colormist: summary: bear is awesome and the book is pretty good.

man, i'm getting really cold from the drafty breezes from the GIANT FUCKING PLOT HOLES in this show.

psst: telstar logistics, not telstar logic.

How many Eagles did they *have* when the blew away from the Earth?

also, WOOHOO DRM-FREE EBOOK! gonna go give Ms McIntyre some money and not chafe at bad implementations of copyright!

Aha! I read this back in the day, forgot the title and the author (although I knew it was a feminist SF author) and over the years have randomly picked up books trying to figure out which was the one with the healer and the snakes and stuff.

The Idaho Falls accident is included in Proving the Principle, a history of the Idaho National Laboratory

Serves me right for reading it on a mobile phone. :)

I've seen the quote around a few places: "The Singularity is The Rapture for nerds".

Why the *hell* do we still have long-haul DC links?

yay.

@Charlie Jane Anders: Separate, but probably related because of those wacky Darwinists.

DAMMIT, WHY MUST I BE CURSED TO WATCH THIS SHOW WITHOUT WEED?

There was much squeeing in our household with the "many of my lovers were male" line. (There's been a lot of H. G. admiration going on. Because smart and hot and my goodness. *fans self*)

@Doctor_Memory: too damned many.

@Annalee Newitz: true. #intoxicated would include SUBSTANCE D. mmmm. Substance D.

Christ, what an asshole.