Wells wrote some outstanding works of fiction which remain relevant and compelling today. He also, apparently, wrote books like The Research Magnificent.
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Forewords and Afterwords
By presenting these materials first, before the reader engages with the story on the story’s own terms, and not those provided by the foreword, the reader’s entire experience with and expectations of the story are distorted.
Ideas and Innovations Newsletter – 202608.29
Nuclear fusion updates, ancient Egyptian pigments, and photonic crystals for computer networking.
Esther Review
Alternatively, we could treat it as it is, without worrying too much about what we cannot know about it, and read Esther as a brief chronicle of a peculiar incident in the history of the relationship between the Jews and the Achaemenids.
Poetry Practice, Exercise 4
This fourth exercise calls for 16 unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter. They should use pyrrhic and trochaic substitutions, weak endings, and enjambments.
Ideas and Innovations Newsletter – 202608.22
Chinese rocket reuse, SWIFT rescue fails, indigo light effects on myopia, irregular CME geometry modeling, a TENG pacemaker, and hot hydrogen damage to Ni alloys.
Perfume Review
Grenouille’s olfactory abilities fit the trope of the defining superhero trait, as does his tragic backstory, his painful and challenging training arc, and his inability to fit into normal society, but he is no hero, protecting eighteenth century Paris from crimes with his beyond-bloodhound sniffer as some manner of odor-based vigilante.
Metropolitan Strata Release Post and Author’s Note
This story is closer to a classic time travel story, despite there being no time travel, and it’s written differently from how I usually write stories.
Ideas and Innovations Newsletter – 202608.15
Air breathing satellites, deployable launch platforms, mapping the mantle with neutrino emissions, rescuing LINK's rescue mission, flying with sound, ceramic piezoelectric devices, and forecasting solar weather with machine learning.
Announcing: Weekly Science and Technology Newsletter
I am announcing a weekly update post/newsletter, primarily focused on science and technology, but with flexibility for me to include other content if I come across something interesting.
