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Depending on your favorite sci-fi yarns, teleportation is either a very, very bad idea (see: The Fly) or a very, very cool one (see: Star Trek). For scientists, it's just very, very complex, so much so that at this point, teleportation is not a matter of moving matter but one of transporting information. Already, physicists have been able to exchange information between light particles - or photons - or between atoms, so long as they were right next to each other. The current experiment marks the first in which information has traveled a significant distance - 1 m, or a little...
Cell-phone novels haven't caught on in the U.S.--yet--but we have something analogous: fan fiction, fan-written stories based on fictional worlds and characters borrowed from popular culture--Star Trek, Jane Austen, Twilight, you name it. There's a staggering amount of it online, enough to qualify it as a literary form in its own right. Fanfiction.net hosts 386,490 short stories, novels and novellas in its Harry Potter section alone...
...Rebel Without a Cause. He won Oscars in consecutive years for Barry Lyndon and Bound for Glory. Rosenman's themes for movies (Fantastic Voyage) and TV (Combat!) were more hummable than dramatic. It was just the opposite for the theme that Alexander Courage wrote for the original Star Trek series, or the jaunty whistling jingle that Earle Hagen composed for The Andy Griffith Show. (In a more serious, romantic vein, Hagen wrote Harlem Nocturne.) Both music men were...
...began with a straightforward sci-fi premise: a space-chase saga but an uncommonly spartan, raw, unflashy one. There are no cute droids ŕ la Star Wars or sexy aliens ŕ la Star Trek. Its universe is dirty, lived in and worn out. The ships are cramped. The humans carry guns that shoot bullets; they also eat--yum!--processed algae vacuumed up from uninhabited planets. And they're given to creative basic-cable profanity--frak being BSG's F word of choice...
...Harvard men’s swimming and diving team separated this past weekend, spanning the East Coast in search of Crimson victories. While the swimmers made the long trek to the University of Georgia for the Georgia Invitational, the Harvard divers traveled to Princeton to compete in their Ivy League nemesis’ home Big Al Invitational. The men’s swimming segment returned to Cambridge after its three-day contest with a second-place finish, while the divers left New Jersey with a solid eighth. GEORGIA INVITATIONAL The Harvard men’s swim team traveled south this...