Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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… would be to visit the brand-new Gundam in Odaiba, unveiled on September 2017. If you are -as I am – a Gundam fan, you’d know that Odaiba used to host a life-sized replica of Amuro Ray’s original Mobil Suit Gundam 1979….
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A few interesting articles about space I have come across in the last days. Definitively worth a reading, people. Everybody who follows astrophysics and space news knows about Tabby’s Star, that so many controversies has caused since its detection. But…
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I had a conversation with a friend a few days ago and we spoke briefly about books for genre fiction writing. Both of us had a few favourites, and I found interesting to compare notes with him because I got…
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