Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
GHOUL, the Indian horror mini-series, just premiered on Netflix last week (24th August 2018) and the net is already buzzing. What is all the fuss about? The backstory is pretty common: a dystopian future, a daughter who gives away her father for…
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I have already said in another post: Roman Empire: Reign of Blood, the Netflix original series that narrates the events of Emperor Commodus’s reign, was one of the best around when historical accuracy is about. Now, Netflix seems to have listened to…
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After a few months of intense historical research and fieldwork for my articles -more about that in future posts- I’ve decided I need a break from pure, factual history and add some fiction in the mix. Hopefully, something good. Here’s a…
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Every space lover has heard of Martin Rees, I bet. He’s (among other things) a UK Astronomer Royal and Emeritus Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge. He also often attends SF Conventions, as he did a…
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In the latest weeks I couldn’t do my usual science &space round-ups, so here it is, with some recent and less recent, but still worth reading, news. The new probe now heading to the Sun and when it comes from….
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The WWW Wednesday meme was formerly hosted by MizB at A Daily Rhythm and revived by Sam @ Taking on a World of Words. It’s a great way to do a weekly update on what you’ve been reading and what you have planned. To take part all you have…
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If you are like me, and writing is part of your full-time job and/or takes up all your free time, you might well regularly shop around for applications/software/tools that make your life eas(ier). Over the years I’ve found and tested…
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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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As every year, Edinburgh Book Festival is the writing event to look forward to in the summer. It is one of the largest public celebrations of the written word in the world, bringing to Scotland more than 1000 writers from around…
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If you thought (like me) that Jupiter only had 65 moons, get ready to be surprised: according to NASA, there are (at least) 12 more lining up and awaiting a name. 11 of them are “normal” outer moons, plus one,…
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