Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
I already knew I was going to love Luna:Wolf Moon since the moment I requested it on Netgalley – and not, or not only, because I am a longtime fan of Ian McDonald (whom I had the pleasure to meet…
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In these days I’m utterly enjoying Mantel’s Wolf Hall, a novel based on the life of Thomas Cromwell, which is one of the best historical novels I’ve read in a long, long time. The point is, I’m generally disappointed; as it…
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I have written a lot about exoplanets on this blog in the past, therefore this is a news I can’t avoid discussing here. Just two days ago NASA released an update on Kepler space telescope team, which added to the already…
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Here’s the usual summary of interesting space news of the week – with some stunning images from our Solar Systems. Have you ever wondered how stargazing from Jupiter would possibly be? Here’s the answer. This photo is a first from…
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There are a few events in the coming months worth mentioning in case you’re just making your plans for Summer. I have spoken in the past about them, so I’ll only briefly provide here names and dates, but you can…
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If you have a keen interest in space matters, you also know about NASA’s Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer – NEOWISE, in short – which is a spacecraft, launched in December 2009 (at that time, called WISE), to study celestial…
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One friend asked me this very question a couple of days ago, and I have to say I didn’t know how to answer. Sure I had blogs I read every week, had I not? Good observation. But, as a matter…
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It’s again the moment for a summary of the space news worth discussing this week (and in the past few). This time there are a few interesting subjects picked up here and there. As usual, links and a couple of comments…
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Salome’ is a new UK literary magazine I’ve recently discovered, and I was so lucky to get Jacs, the Editor-in-Chief, here for a chat to present the zine and the concept behind it. I have to add that the graphics…
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