Science Fiction Writer
ROBERT J. SAWYER
Hugo and Nebula Winner

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Nebula Award-winning science-fiction writer Robert J. Sawyer writes and presents a weekly science column for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's CBC Radio One.

The columns, which have the umbrella title Science FACTION: Commentaries from the Cutting Edge of Science, are produced by Barbara Saxberg in Toronto, and syndicated to local CBC Radio stations across Canada.

• Neanderthals are a Separate Species
• We're Just 95% Chimpanzee
• Nature vs. Nurture (Jesus and the James ossuary)
• The Fountain of Youth (telomeres)

• The Great Leap Forward (dawn of consciousness)
• The Hard Problem (binding consciousness)
• God and the Brain (the God organ)

• The X Prize (Canadians in space)
• The Ocean of Europa
• Extrasolar Earthlike Planets
• Where are the Aliens? (the Fermi paradox)

• Quantum Computers
• Nanotech: What's the Big Idea?

• William Antony Swithin Sarjeant (dinosaur extinction)
• Devising Markers for Nuclear-Waste Sites
• Fraud in Science

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