what's new, 2009

December 2009

30th • SF film • Star Trek
28th • SF film • Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
26th • SF • Patricia Briggs • Blood Bound
26th • SF film • At World's End
24th • NSC • introduction and conclusions: "The Game of Life on Penrose Tilings: still life and oscillators"
23rd • SF • S. L. Viehl • Crystal Healer
22nd • language • Jeremy Butterfield • Damp Squid
22nd • physics • Leonard Susskind, James Lindesay • An Introduction to Black Holes, Information and the String Theory Revolution
22nd • SF TV • Stargate Atlantis • season 5
21st • SF • Robin McKinley • Chalice
20th • SF • Mike Shepherd • Undaunted
17th• SF • Lilith Saintcrow • Flesh Circus
13th• SF • Neal Stephenson • Anathem

November 2009

22nd • misc • Commonplace Book
15th • cartoons • Stephen Notley • Bob the Angry Flower: In Defence of Fascism
1st • SF • Kage Baker • The Graveyard Game
1st • NSC • full paper: "The Neglected Pillar of Material Computation"
1st • NSC • full paper: "Immuno-Engineering"

October 2009

26th • complexity • Ludwig von Bertalanffy • General System Theory
25th • SF • John Varley • Rolling Thunder
24th • SF • Patricia Briggs • The Hob's Bargain
21st • SF • Michael Flynn • Eifelheim
15th • maths • Jon Barwise, Lawrence Moss • Vicious Circles
11th • NSC • abstract: "The CoSMoS Process: Simulations for Scientific Exploration"
11th • NSC • abstract: "Environment orientation: An approach to the simulation of complex systems"
11th • NSC • abstract: "CoSMoS: Complex Systems Modelling and Simulation Infrastructure"
10th • SF • Spider Robinson • Very Hard Choices
7th • SF • Patricia Briggs • Moon Called
3rd • SF • Kage Baker • Mendoza in Hollywood

September 2009

26th • NSC • abstract: "Highly entangled multi-qubit states with simple algebraic structure"
20th • SF film • Hellboy II
15th • SF • Elizabeth Bear • Blood and Iron

August 2009

31st • medicine • Katrina S. Firlik • Another Day in the Frontal Lobe
23rd • SF • J. Michael Straczynski • Tribulations
22nd • SF • J. D. Robb • Promises in Death
22nd • SF • Kage Baker • Sky Coyote
16th • SF • Lilith Saintcrow • Redemption Alley
15th • NSC • paper: "Searching for Quantum Programs and Quantum Protocols: a review"
15th • NSC • paper: "Investigating emergence by coarse graining Elementary Cellular Automata"
15th • NSC • paper: "Complex Systems Models: Engineering Simulations"
15th • NSC • paper: "Protein folding with stochastic L-Systems"
15th • NSC • paper: "Investigating Patterns for the Process-Oriented Modelling and Simulation of Space in Complex Systems"
12th • SF • Kage Baker • In the Garden of Iden
9th • SF • Ilona Andrews • Magic Strikes
8th • SF • Liz Williams • Snake Agent
5th • success • Malcolm Gladwell • Outliers
2nd • SF • Douglas Coupland • JPod

July 2009

27th • SF • Melinda Snodgrass • Circuit Breaker
26th • SF • Charles Stross • Saturn's Children
25th • design • Bill Buxton • Sketching User Experiences
23rd • language • Peter Gilliver, Jeremy Marshall, Edmund Weiner • The Ring of Words
19th • SF • Melinda Snodgrass • Circuit
12th • SF • Melinda Snodgrass • The Edge of Reason
5th • SF TV • Century Falls
5th • NSC • abstract: "Visualising Random Boolean Network Dynamics: mutation and canalisation"
5th • NSC • abstract: "Molecular microprograms"
5th • NSC • abstract: "RBN-World: A Sub-Symbolic Artificial Chemistry"
5th • NSC • abstract: "Co-translational protein folding with L-Systems"
2nd • medicine • Atul Gawande • Better

June 2009

30th • NSC • abstract: "Environment orientation"
29th • biography • Haruki Murakami • What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
25th • economics • Paul Ormerod • Why Most Things Fail
24th • SF • Joss Whedon • Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Omnibus volume 7
20th • art • Scott McCloud • Making Comics
15th • SF • Spider Robinson • Very Bad Deaths
14th • SF • John Scalzi • Zoe's Tale
13th • SF • Lilith Saintcrow • Strange Angels
10th • biology • Ed Regis • What Is Life?
7th • SF • Tanya Huff • Valor's Trial
6th • language • Susan Schaller • A Man without Words
6th • SF TV • Battlestar Galactica: Razor
2nd • SF • Joss Whedon, Karl Moline, Jeph Loeb • Time of Your Life

May 2009

26th • medicine • Atul Gawande • Complications
25th • SF film • X-Men III: The Last Stand
24th • SF • Lilith Saintcrow • The Demon's Librarian
24th • NSC • full paper: "Adaptive Circuit Control through Gene Expression"
23rd • SF • Greg Egan • Teranesia
22nd • evolution • Neil Shubin • Your Inner Fish
18th • complexity • Jeffrey Kluger • Simplexity
16th • SF • Ken MacLeod • Newton's Wake
4th • logic • Jon Barwise, John Etchemendy • The Liar
2nd • SF TV • Sarah Connor Chronicles, season 2

April 2009

28th • psychology • Maryanne Wolf • Proust and the Squid
25th • SF • Sharon Lee, Steve Miller • Duainfey
19th • SF • Joss Whedon et al • Angel: After the Fall volume 1
18th • meteorology • Gavin Pretor-Pinney • A Pig with Six Legs
17th • SF • Lois McMaster Bujold • Horizon
16th • SF con • LX 2009 Eastercon notes
12th • SF • Justina Robson • Mappa Mundi
9th • art • Scott McCloud • Reinventing Comics
6th • SF • J. D. Robb • Salvation in Death
2nd • society • Richard Sennett • The Craftsman

March 2009

20th • NSC • abstract: "Counting preimages of homogeneous configurations in 1-dimensional cellular automata"
17th • NSC • abstract: "Visualising Random Boolean Network Dynamics"
16th • nanotech • J. Storrs Hall • Nanofuture
11th • psychology • Sandra Blakeslee, Matthew Blakeslee • The Body has a Mind of Its Own

February 2009

28th • NSC • abstract: "Grammatical Evolution of L-systems"
28th • NSC • abstract: "Gene Regulation in a Particle Metabolome"
28th • NSC • abstract: "Representation and Structural biases in CGP"
25th • SF • Lilith Saintcrow • Mindhealer
22nd • SF TV • Medium, season 3
22nd • SF • Mercedes Lackey • The Snow Queen
13th • SF • Joss Whedon • Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Omnibus volume 6
8th • SF • Elizabeth Bear • New Amsterdam
7th • SF • Holly Lisle, Ted Nolan • Hell on High
4th • SF • Jennifer Rardin • One More Bite
2nd • SF • Mike Shepherd • Intrepid

January 2009

22nd • NSC • abstract: "GoL CA rules on Penrose Tilings: lifetime, ash and oscillator statistics"
21st • NSC • full paper: "Grand Challenge 7 : Journeys in Non-Classical Computation"
12th • Web • Stewart Mader • Wikipatterns
10th • cartoons • Stephen Notley • The Ultimate Book of Perfect Energy
9th • SF TV • Futurama: Bender's Game
6th • SF TV • Sanctuary, season 1
5th • SF • Jennifer Rardin • Bitten to Death
5th • NSC • introduction: "Nonclassical Computation: a dynamical systems perspective"
4th • SF film • Shrek the Third

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