Long before he formed a rap crew in sixth grade, he obsessed over figuring out how to recreate the score from the video game Chrono Trigger on his keyboard.
Blade talked with World Cafe Nashville about the singular journey he traveled to reach the point where he's both ahead of his time and in step with his moment.
Jewly Hight, World Cafe: There's a line in one of your songs about hearing your mom play Missy Elliot, which seems like the stuff that would have been popular when you were growing up, but that wasn't necessarily what you paid attention to at a young age. What was so fascinating to you about the soundtrack composed for the video game Chrono Trigger ?
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Half the Milky Way's sun-like stars could be home to Earth-like planets | MIT Technology Review
And what better way to look for Earth 2.0 than to search around stars similar to the sun? A new analysis of exoplanet data collected by NASA's Kepler space telescope, which operated from 2009 to 2018, has come up with some new predictions for how many stars in the Milky Way galaxy that are comparable to the sun in temperature and age are likely to be orbited by a rocky, potentially habitable planet like Earth.
The model's average, however, posits that one in two sun-like stars could have a habitable planet, causing that figure to swell to over 2 billion. Even less conservative predictions suggest it could be over 3.6 billion.
Harvard Researchers Confirm First Earth-Sized Exoplanet in Habitable Zone | News | The Harvard
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The study, published in the Astronomical Journal on Aug. 14, used NASA's Spitzer telescope to confirm the observations of the exoplanet, known as TOI-700 d, orbiting the star TOI-700. Researchers had also previously observed the exoplanet with NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite space telescope.
An exoplanet is any planet outside of our solar system. The exoplanet researchers identified — TOI-700 d — is considered to be within a habitable zone because its position relative to the TOI-700 star and its temperature suggest it could have liquid water on its surface.
Is your roommate one of these famous TV characters? - Columbia Daily Spectator
Every roommate comes with their quirks. These TV shows present the best (and worst) kinds of roommates you might have, from comedians and party animals to neat freaks and grouches. Whether you're searching for a roommate now or you've had the same one for the past four years, take a look through these iconic roommates and find out which one you vibe with.
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Quote: "One of us has to put food on my Barbie-themed TV trays." - Titus Andromedon, "Kimmy Gets a Job!"
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Forbidden Planet, Forgotten History: The Story Behind a Sci-Fi Classic's Premiere in
On a balmy late winter Friday in 1956, The Charlotte Observer announced that electronic “brains” would be on display at Hotel Charlotte that weekend. The exhibit was part of the second annual Southeastern Science Fiction Conference, an early ancestor of today’s popular “cons.
“MGM somehow found out that we had a club here,” Madle, now 100, tells me from his home in Rockville, Maryland. “And MGM had a screening room—it was a little neat little room, seated about 40 people—and it was just like Hollywood, only it was Charlotte.”
How many alien civilisations are out there? A new galactic survey holds a clue.
This artist's concept depicts Kepler-186f, the first validated Earth-size planet to orbit a distant star in the habitable zone—a range of distance from a star where liquid water might pool on the planet's surface.
Here's a good sign for alien hunters: More than 300 million worlds with similar conditions to Earth are scattered throughout the Milky Way galaxy. A new analysis concludes that roughly half of the galaxy's sunlike stars host rocky worlds in habitable zones where liquid water could pool or flow over the planets' surfaces.
Ezra Dyer: The GT Is McLaren's Crossover
And it all went fine. Yes, I had to saw my eight-foot two-by-fours roughly in half to keep them confined to the cargo area. But then, aided by the optional $500 luggage straps, I was ready to embark on my home improvement project, just like the adjacent contractors in their F-250s. As I like to say around the job site, you can't spell "working" without "Woking"!
Once you offload all that detritus, flick those console knobs to "T" and do a launch-control start, all pretense of daily-driver sanity is erased by the savage deployment of horsepower. Yeah, the new Corvette can also claim a sub-three-second 0–60-mph time, but trust me that it's not the same after that, the McLaren pulling into the triple-digits with a terrible ferocity, a roller coaster that spit the brake.
Sci-fi master Ted Chiang explores the rights and wrongs of AI
What rights does a robot have? If our machines become intelligent in the science-fiction way, that's likely to become a complicated question — and the humans who nurture those robots just might take their side.
Chiang's soulful short stories have earned him kudos from the likes of The New Yorker, which has called him "one of the most influential science-fiction writers of his generation." During this year's pandemic-plagued summer, he joined the Museum of Pop Culture's Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame . And this week, he's receiving an award from the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation for employing imagination in service to society.
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