All Blog Posts Tagged 'science' (12)

Gruesome murder scenes, cybercrime, fraud and stalking entertained audiences at CSI Portsmouth 2012 with crime authors and crime experts

Crime authors Stephen Booth, Ann Cleeves, Matt Hilton and Pauline Rowson, and crime experts from Hampshire Police, the University of Portsmouth and the University of Surrey kept a packed audience enthralled at CSI Portsmouth on Saturday 3…

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Added by Pauline Rowson on November 6, 2012 at 10:58pm — No Comments

"For the Love of Crime Fiction" by Aaron Philip Clark

I was invited to Paul D. Brazill's blog where I chat about my love of crime fiction and other things. Read here.

Added by Aaron Philip Clark on August 25, 2012 at 4:16am — No Comments

Early Innovators of Forensic Science

I find everything about the science of forensics to be extremely interesting. I can’t seem to shake my curious mind about how and why the various crime scene puzzles interlock and ultimately reveal the identity of the criminal. Descriptions like “CSI” and “ criminal profiling” are the words that are commonplace in our language today.

What was the inspiration…

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Added by Jennifer Chase on June 7, 2011 at 6:02am — No Comments

Forensic Science – Past & Present

It is often thought that police forensics has been a relatively new contribution to interpreting, reconstructing, and solving crimes in our society. Quite the contrary, police forensics, or more accurately described as forensic science, has been a part of history for more than a…

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Added by Jennifer Chase on May 4, 2011 at 9:41am — No Comments

Getting Inside Your Head: Virtual Reality guru Jeremy Bailenson's Writing Life

Move over cards, cocaine, and nicotine, Virtual Reality is the new addiction. It isn’t restricted to the realms of academe or science fiction. Whether you know it or not, it’s going to change your life. It already may have done so. Stanford University Professor Jeremy Bailenson is co-author of a new book,<a href="http://www.infinitereality.org/"> Infinite…

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Added by Matt Rees on April 10, 2011 at 6:29pm — No Comments

Jan Burke writes about The Crime Lab Project/Ian Rankin review in KRL

In the new issue of Kings River Life bestselling mystery author Jan Burke shares about Forensic Science and The Crime Lab Project http://kingsriverlife.com/04/09/crime-lab-project/#sig
We also have a review of the latest Ian Rankin mystery novel "The Complaints" http://kingsriverlife.com/04/09/the-complaints/#sig
Happy reading,
Lorie Ham

Added by Lorie Ham on April 10, 2011 at 4:16am — No Comments

Jan Burke writes about The Crime Lab Project/Ian Rankin review in KRL

Added by Lorie Ham on April 10, 2011 at 4:16am — No Comments

This Detective is out of this World

Check out what happens to Intergalactic Detective Da'Quan when his ship is pulled into the Planet of Doom in the September issue of Sci-fi Freedom.

http://issuu.com/scififreedom/docs/sff_sept_e-zine_issue_1…

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Added by Lawrence Johnson on September 11, 2010 at 10:06am — No Comments

Ny novella has been released!

My science fiction thriller novella, THE EPSILON ERIDANI ALTERNATIVE, has officially been released from Virtual Tales and is available for purchase. The short blurb is:

What would you do if you were confronted with a "kill or be-killed" scenario? What if that meant that you had to kill an infant of an alien species to save your own life? And what if the future of the human race depended on your decision?

paperback ISBN-13: 9781935460138, $9.95

eBook ISBN-13:… Continue

Added by Beth Groundwater on December 17, 2009 at 2:45pm — 2 Comments

Seeing Double. And Yogurt

I'm not really twice as wordy as usual. I'm getting double postings, and I don't know why. I notice some others are too, and Daniel says it will go away soon. I try to delete one if I catch it.

Today's challenge: explain where the ridiculous names used in ads come from. What scientist, in lab coat and black-framed eyeglasses, proclaimed: "We've found a new yogurt culture, and we're going to call it bifidus regularis!"

Added by Peg Herring on November 23, 2009 at 6:30am — 1 Comment

CSI Myths: The Shaky Science Behind Forensics

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military_law/4325774.html

Added by John Dishon on July 28, 2009 at 12:32pm — 1 Comment

Review: The Third Person, Steve Mosby

I for one am very happy to see when a crime author decides to blend genres and firmly leaps out of the box create for the genre. Steve Mosby presents us with an excellent crime story, which has elements of speculative science fiction chucked in, along with a dash of horror.

Steve Mosby published his first book at about the same time as me, and at about the same age, around 26. When I read The Third Person, it left me gobsmacked and not a little jealous. If he can… Continue

Added by Richard Kunzmann on April 15, 2009 at 7:24pm — No Comments