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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Newsclipping from recent space and tech articles from around the web, some of them really interesting. Nearby neutron star collision could cause calamity on Earth. But if it doesn’t, the event itself could be very important for the detection of the…
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I believe everyone knows about NaNoWriMo, which stays for National Novel Writing Month, is an annual, Internet-based writing endeavour that happens in November. People that join will attempt to write a 50,000-word manuscript between 1-30 November. What people sometimes don’t…
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Continuing with my interview series of editors and authors, today I am thrilled to have S.J. Higbee here to present her new novel. I know Sarah since a while and she’s a fellow blogger. Her Brainfluff is an amazing blog, and…
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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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… about time, I know. It was on my 2017 new-blog-year resolutions (stated here), but for a reason or another, I have never fully committed. Moreover, I have, since the beginning, chosen not to host my author page on this blog,…
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Apparently, not just planets have rings. Even smaller bodies – such as dwarf planets – have them, and that has just been proved. And the (unexpected) protagonist is Haumea, a mysterious dwarf planet on the edge of our solar system….
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As a long-time manga/anime lover, I have many times wondered why some series -very popular in Japan -are almost unknown in Europe, no matter if overall the fandom base has been growing everywhere since the 1970s. Without having lived in…
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[Disclaimer: spoilers, in the second part of this post only. I’ll warn you later on up to where it is safe to read if you haven’t seen the movie yet.] The most awaited movie of the year has been out…
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Yes, that’s it. Today Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne (you do remember him, right? Interstellar, anyone?) and Barry Barish won the Nobel Prize 2017 – Physics. The ripples were first predicted by Albert Einstein – they are a fundamental consequence of…
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