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Fellow Science Lovers, Game update: I finally worked on the game again! Several bug fixes: Once I’m done renewing an IT certification (AWS Associate Developer), I can devote time to building out the next big area of the game. In Scribes Emerge, Mallory carves a diamond out of a cavern wall with her Sword. While cutting it,… Continue reading A Glowing Diamond

Fellow Science Lovers, Game update: Still no game updates, but I did send Scribes Emerge to beta readers! As soon as this little book goes to market, my attention will be focused squarely (and triangularly) on the game for a few months! Oh, and here’s the cover: I did this one myself, except for the 3 circles… Continue reading How Accelerometers Work

Fellow Science Lovers, Game update: Still no game updates. Sorry for the delay, but I need to give Scribes Emerge more editorial noogies before I plop it in the laps of my beta readers. And just now, autocorrect wanted me to change “noogies” to “boogies.”  Inertial Sensors In chapter 1 of Scribes’ Descent, Mallory installs an inertial sensor suite into a mini drone.… Continue reading How Does Your Phone Know When You Rotate It?

Fellow Science Lovers, Game update: Still no updates on the game yet. If you smell smoke drifting from Virginia between 8p and midnight EST, that’s not a forest fire. That’s my brain melting during Scribes Emerge edits. Hopefully it can resume its normal operating temperature soon. 🧠🔥🔥🔥 Incendiary Insects Speaking of fires and melting, you probably noticed… Continue reading Exploding Beetles

Fellow Science Lovers, Game update: Nothing on this front yet. My face is still wedged into Scribes Emerge edits. Let’s get Geological Mallory gently rapped me over the skull to ask why I hadn’t written a geology article in a while. I had no good answer, so here we are. Talking about rocks again. Or are we?… Continue reading Sand vs Soil vs Dirt – What’s the Difference?

Fellow Science Lovers, Game update: I’m still revising Scribes Emerge. As soon as I’m done, I plan to add another area to the game and sprinkle in some more names. Yours might be among them if you were one of the early reviewers. My regular farmer’s market has been on break since Dec 21st, so I’ve had many consecutive Saturdays… Continue reading The Problem With Waste Heat

Fellow Science Lovers, Game update: Nothing to report this month. I’m still revising Scribes Emerge. If you’d like to be a beta reader, please let me know, but it would be a massive help if you read Scribes’ Descent and Scribes Aflame first. I hope you had a merry Christmas and have something fun planned for New Year’s Eve. I will… Continue reading How to Convert Heat into Electricity

Fellow Science Lovers, Game update: Nothing to report this month. I’m still revising Scribes Emerge. If you’d like to be a beta reader, please reply and let me know, but it would be a massive help if you read Scribes’ Descent and Scribes Aflame first. New Release! Eight of my writing inspiration articles and flash fiction stories have been included in a… Continue reading How to Learn a Foreign Language, part 3

Fellow Science Lovers, We’re picking up where last month’s newsletter left off. How to Learn a Foreign Language, Part 1 If you haven’t read it, it’ll give you some context, but it isn’t required to understand this one.  Listening Practice In addition to making yourself speak your new language, you should listen to a lot of it… Continue reading How to Learn a Foreign Language, Part 2

Fellow Science Lovers, Game update: Nothing to report this month. I’m still engrossed with Scribes Emerge edits. Most of my characters learn foreign languages, and I imagine many of you are, too. That’s why I’ll devote the next few articles to the question: How do you learn a foreign language? That’ll give us a nice break from all the… Continue reading How to Learn a Foreign Language, part 1