Best of 2017 (astro) news
At -2 (or 1, depending on which part of the globe you’re based) to 2018, it’s the moment for a quick recap of 2017 space news -for one, because this year spoiled us. We had all sort of events and…
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Monthly Archive: December 2017
Aliens out there: Oumuamua
It has been a while since I have got across something as interesting as this bizarrely-shaped celestial object that has recently appeared on our system. Its name is Oumuamua, and it has got instant notoriety around the globe. The first…
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Teaser Tuesday (19 December)
Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted at The Purple Booker. Anyone can play along by doing the following: • Grab your current read • Open to a random page • Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that…
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Blogiversary -Year 4
And here we are -four years of blogging, and the last one happened so quickly my head is spinning. Not all the plans I had for this blog have materialised, mainly for lack of time: I have changed job (more…
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Triangle (2009). A review.
If you stumble upon Triangle (I don’t think you’re going to search for it. At least, I didn’t, because I’ve never heard of it until yesterday) and you decide to give it a try, chances are you’ll find it pretty…
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Everest (2015). A review
I found out about Everest (a 2015 British-American biographical adventure movie, directed and co-produced by Baltasar Kormákur) by chance when browsing Netflix’s adventure section. As I love extreme adventure movies, I decided to give it a shot. You should, too: differently…
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Altered Carbon: The Trailer
You remember Altered Carbon, right? It’s the amazing book by Richard K. Morgan that redefined the whole concept of cyberpunk in XXI century, together with being an action-packed thriller that you can’t possibly put down. (And if you haven’t read…
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Friday (writing) + (cheap) advice [or: how to safely kiss plague rats]
It is 1 December, it is Friday and what I have to do today is to mark dissertation proposals (I work in a university, after all). However, instead of concentrating on what matters the most (my students’ aim and objectives, literature…
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