Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
There are a few events in the coming months worth mentioning in case you’re just making your plans for Summer. I have spoken in the past about them, so I’ll only briefly provide here names and dates, but you can…
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If you have a keen interest in space matters, you also know about NASA’s Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer – NEOWISE, in short – which is a spacecraft, launched in December 2009 (at that time, called WISE), to study celestial…
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One friend asked me this very question a couple of days ago, and I have to say I didn’t know how to answer. Sure I had blogs I read every week, had I not? Good observation. But, as a matter…
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It’s again the moment for a summary of the space news worth discussing this week (and in the past few). This time there are a few interesting subjects picked up here and there. As usual, links and a couple of comments…
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Salome’ is a new UK literary magazine I’ve recently discovered, and I was so lucky to get Jacs, the Editor-in-Chief, here for a chat to present the zine and the concept behind it. I have to add that the graphics…
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In the last six months, for a series of reasons I’ll talk about in a future post, I’ve been watching a lot of historical fiction (reading it, well, I’ve never stopped. History books – fiction and not – are among…
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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…
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This week I’m going for another space summary, simply because there were so many interesting headlines that they deserve to be at least mentioned here. As usual, references and the links just after the general description. The first and most disquieting…
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I have recently seen a lot of articles discussing the so-called ocean worlds – that is, all planets and celestial objects that are not the Earth – and the interest in them is obvious: water is one of the essential…
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It’s the moment for another summary of space news worth discussing this week (and in the past few). This time there are not amazing discoveries but interesting subjects picked up here and there. As usual, links and a couple of comments…
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