what’s new, 2023

December 2023

31st • SF film • Barbie
29th • education • Stefan Collini • What are Universities For?
27th • SF • J. D. Robb • Golden in Death
24th • engineering • Stephen Ressler • Do-It-Yourself Engineering
23rd • language; history • Renée R. Trilling • Old English Literature
17th • SF • Emily Tesh • Some Desperate Glory

November 2023

28th • SF • Gregory Benford • Shadows of Eternity
20th • biology • Milton Muldrow Jr • Synthetic Biology
6th • SF TV • Star Trek: Discovery, season 4

October 2023

14th • SF TV • B5: The Road Home
11th • SWE • Increased dispersal explains increasing local diversity with global biodiversity declines, paper
8th • systems • Stafford Beer • Designing Freedom

September 2023

30th • games • Tristan Donovan • Great Board Games of the Ancient World
14th • SF • Jodi Taylor • A Trail Through Time
9th • engineering • Stephen Ressler • Epic Engineering Failures and the Lessons They Teach
3rd • SF • Mur Lafferty • Station Eternity

August 2023

27th • SF • J. D. Robb • Vendetta in Death
26th • palaeontology • Anthony Martin, John Hawks • Major Transitions in Evolution
20th • SF • Travis Baldree • Legends and Lattes
14th • SF • Dennis E. Taylor • All These Worlds
5th • SF • Dennis E. Taylor • For We Are Many
5th • psychology • Peter Godfrey-Smith • Other Minds
1st • geology • James Cotter • Practical Geology

July 2023

30th • SF • Ted Chiang • Exhalation
25th • NSC • A π-calculus model of Supercoiling DNA Circuits, paper
25th • NSC • Exploring the Rich Behaviour of Developmental Graph Cellular Automata, paper
25th • NSC • Developmental Graph Cellular Automata, paper
23rd • psychology • Anil Seth • Being You
12th • SF • Mary Robinette Kowal • The Spare Man
8th • SF • Jane M. Lindskold • Asphodel

June 2023

25th • SF • Seanan McGuire • The Brightest Fell
25th • physics • Carlo Rovelli • The Order of Time
23rd • NSC • Combining Multiple Inputs to a Delay-line Reservoir Computer, abstract
4th • SF • Ben Aaronovitch • Amongst Our Weapons
1st • history; disease • Dorsey Armstrong • The Black Death
1st • NSC • Reservoir Computing with nanowire exchange-coupled spin torque oscillator arrays, abstract
1st • NSC • Exploring the Robustness of Magnetic Ring Arrays Reservoir Computing with Linear Field Calibration, abstract
1st • NSC • Spatial correlations in the qubit properties of D-Wave 2000Q measured and simulated qubit networks, paper
1st • NSC • Modelling and Evaluating Restricted ESNs, abstract

May 2023

30th • English • Anne Curzan • The Secret Life of Words
24th • SF • J. D. Robb • Connections in Death
20th • NSC • DebugNS: Novelty Search for Finding Bugs in Simulators, abstract
15th • geology • John J. Renton • The Nature of Earth
2nd • SF • Arkady Martine • A Desolation Called Peace

April 2023

2nd • SF • Katherine Addison • The Grief of Stones

March 2023

21st • NSC • Deep learning's shallow gains, paper
20th • SF • Adrian Tchaikovsky • Bear Head
19th • maths • Gregory Chaitin • Proving Darwin
15th • NSC • Life as a Cyber-Bio-Physical System, paper
12th • psychology • Lewis Wolpert • Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast
11th • SF • Genevieve Cogman • The Lost Plot
5th • literature • Grant L. Voth • The History of World Literature
4th • SF • Paul Cornell • The Lights Go Out in Lychford

February 2023

23rd • NSC • On the Open-Endedness of Detecting Open-Endedness, online early
21st • SF • Jo Walton • Or What You Will

January 2023

23rd • NSC • A perspective on physical reservoir computing with nanomagnetic devices, full paper
22nd • SF • Lois McMaster Bujold • Penric's Labors
15th • SF • Andy Weir • Project Hail Mary
5th • SF • Sharon Lee, Steve Miller • Trader's Leap

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