Once Around the Sun

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Once Around the Sun is a finalist in the Indie Book Awards, Anthology category.
Here’s the announcement of our category. The finalists are listed alphabetically by book title.

ANTHOLOGY

WINNER: Chiral Mad 2, by Jack Ketchum, David Morrell, John Skipp, Thomas F. Monteleone, Gary A. Braunbeck, et al. (Written Backwards) (ISBN 978-1494239978)

FINALISTS:

EDGE Volume 7, by Multiple Authors (Self-Published) (ISBN 978-0980202755)
 Lost Orchard: Prose and Poetry from the Kirkland College Community, by Jo Pitkin (SUNY Press) (ISBN 978-1438449982)

New Worlds: Girls Write Now 2013 Anthology, by Girls Write Now Mentors and Mentees; forward written by Adele Griffin; contributions by Alice Walker, Jennifer Westfeldt, Gloria Jacobs, Hannah Tinti, and Zetta Elliott (Publishing made possible by Amazon.com, National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs) (ISBN 978-0615818276)

Once Around the Sun: Sweet, Funny, and Strange Tales for All Seasons, by Bethlehem Writers Group (Bethlehem Writers Group, LLC) (ISBN 978-0989265003)

The Way North: Collected Upper Peninsula New Works, Edited by Ron Riekki (Wayne State University Press) (ISBN 978-0814338650)

For a list of all the winners:
http://indiebookawards.com/2014_winners_and_finalists.php

Math and Movies (Animation at Pixar) – Numberphile

This Numberphile video is well worth your time. Wouldn’t Tony DeRose make a great guest speaker in a math class?

How do 3D animated characters look so smooth? Pixar researcher Tony DeRose explains – with mathematics.
http://graphics.pixar.com/research/
Tony DeRose papers: http://bit.ly/DeRosePapers
Ed Catmull’s paper: http://bit.ly/1stJNht

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