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New Post to The Popular Uncanny blog on “The Uncanny Valley and Intellectual Uncertainty”

Just added a new essay to my theory blog on The Popular Uncanny:  "The Uncanny Valley and Intellectual Uncertainty" -- a review and reaction to an interesting cognitive study just published on the brain's response to the uncanny valley. If you don't know what the Uncanny Valley is, then see Wikipedia.  Or watch this video from Popular Science online:  
July 16, 2011Posted inData+Errata
Posted inAmbulations

Photos from the Alpha Workshop Readings

See the full gallery on Posterous I enjoyed dropping by the fiction readings sponsored by the Alpha Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Workshop for Young Writers this evening in Greensburg, PA. Writers who instruct in the workshops this year included David Levine, Scott Johnson and David Barr Kirtley -- all pictured here. The book I co-edited, Many Genres, One Craft, was also sold at the event, where contributor and Alpha guru Diane Turnshek walked among us. An entertaining night! Congrats on ten years of workshops, Alphans!
July 16, 2011Posted inAmbulations1 Comment
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My program for the Confluence SF convention (July 22-23)

Next week (July 22-23rd, 2011) I'll be attending Pittsburgh's annual Literary Science Fiction convention, Confluence.  Here's my schedule of events: Friday July 22, 5:30pm  Jr Suite   Michael Arnzen Fiction Reading     Friday 6pm   Jr Suite   Literary Beer: informal chat about the book, MANY GENRES, ONE CRAFT: LESSONS IN WRITING POPULAR FICTION with editors Heidi Ruby Miller & Michael Arnzen Friday 10pm  Willow Room HORROR PANEL: "Growing up Scared: How What Scares us Changes as We Age"   Michael Arnzen (Moderator);  Paul Anderson; John Alfred Taylor; Lawrence Connolly  Description: "From monsters and gore to conspiracy and untrustworthy senses, the things that…
July 10, 2011Posted inArnzen News
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Google Plus added to the Arnzen Social Network

Quick note: I've added Google+ to the Michael Arnzen Social Network. If you're on google+, feel free to add me to your purgatorial circles... A few folks have asked me: How do I "follow" or "join" your ostentatious-sounding "network"? Simple answer: If you just want to follow me on the MASN, click on the "Get Updates" link on the left hand side of the main page at michaelarnzen.com. [Or better yet: sign up for a posterous.com account (which is a free web blog you can create via email (!) that also autoposts to various social networks...highly recommended!) and "subscribe" that…
July 9, 2011Posted inData+Errata