Eurocon 2018, France, 19-21 July
In case you have a free weekend in front of you and you’re not too far away from France, this is an event you might want to attend: Eurocon 2018, held from 19 to 21 July in the city of…
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Blood Moon 2018: Total Lunar Eclipse on July 27
Are you excited? You should. There is a total lunar eclipse coming up just in two weeks -on July 27, to be precise – which is going to be the longest of the century and the first central lunar eclipse…
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Teaser Tuesday (10 Jul)
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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Markets for your Haiku
If you like me love the short-short form both in fiction and poetry, you already know what haiku (and other short poetry forms, such as tanka, senryu, etc) are, and you probably read (and/or write) them, too. After my previous…
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Wordbuilding -Creating your alien life
I have already written in the past about how alien (in the sense of odd) nature can possibly be. Today I’d like to explore the concept from another perspective: what does make a plausible alien life form? This is a *very*…
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Best 2018 Pictures from Space
In the past, I’ve often featured a few amazing snapshots taken from Hubble, Chandra and the various space probes on this blog. It has been a while since I had not posted anything new, so here you have something to…
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Teaser Tuesday (19 Jun)
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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Meet Ultima Thule, New Horizons’ Next Target
Everybody remembers New Horizons, right? The probe, launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in January 2006, did a truly historic flyby of Pluto on July 14, 2015, passing at only 12,472 km (7,750 mi) from the dwarf planet’s icy surface, before continuing its course…
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WWW Wednesday: 13 June 2018
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…
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All eyes on Mars
Curiosity (NASA’s rover launched in 2011 and that landed on the Martian surface on August 6, 2012) keeps delivering. Today, NASA announced that the rover “has found new evidence preserved in rocks on Mars that suggests the planet could have supported ancient…
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