June 2015

Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey

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The novel “Leviathan Wakes” by James S.A. Corey was published for the first time in 2011. It’s the first book in the Expanse series.

Jim Holden is an officer of the spaceship Canterbury, a space tug transporting ice from Saturn’s rings to the asteroid belt. During a trip, the spaceship runs into the derelict Scopuli but the Canterbury is attacked and destroyed. Holden and some of the crew manage to escape but their lives are in danger.

On the dwarf planet Ceres, Detective Miller of the private security force that act as the colony police, receives a particular assignment. Julie Mao is part of an important Earth’s family but preferred to move away to a life of adventure in space. Her parents want her to be returned to Earth, in any way. Miller’s investigation on the girl leads him to unexpected discoveries.

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In recent days, Google and the Broad Institute, a genomics and biomedical research center founded by MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Harvard University, announced a collaboration in the field of genomics. The Broad Institute’s Genome Analysis Toolkit (GATK) will be offered as a service of Google’s Cloud Platform as part of the Google Genomics project. This will allow researchers to combine the center’s tools of genomic analysis with Google’s computing power.

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Yesterday the British-born then become American actor Patrick Macnee passed away. The announcement came from his son Rupert, who confirmed that his father died at his home in Rancho Mirage, California. The actor had been living in the USA for about 40 years. Inevitably Patrick Macnee’s name is mainly related to the TV show “The Avengers”, which became a cult show that after more than 50 years since its beginning still has many fans in the world.

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Charles Sheffield was born on June 25, 1935 in Kingston Upon Hull, Yorkshire, England. After graduating in mathematics and physics, he and his wife moved to the USA. After his wife’s death, he started a career as a science fiction writer publishing many novels and short fiction with great success. Charles Sheffield died on November 2, 2002 due to a brain tumor.

Doctor Who - The Face of Evil

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“The Face of Evil” is an adventure of the fourteenth season of “Doctor Who” classic series, which aired in 1977 featuring the Fourth Doctor and Leela. It follows “The Deadly Assassin” and it’s a four parts adventure written by Chris Boucher and directed by Pennant Roberts.