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…
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One of the good things about living in Edinburgh is the events you have access to. Tonight is a good example – we have in town Professor Brian Cox for a theatre session of astrophysics and related topics. [If you…
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Dust to Dust is a medical thriller by the acclaimed best-seller writer Ken McClure and, while number 8 in the Steven Dunbar fortunate series, is the first one for me to read. After some thoughts, I’ve decided to approach this…
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After hours of trepidation, we now know for sure that Cassini has survived its daring first dive on April 26 between Saturn and its rings. The spacecraft has got back in contact and it’s now beaming back all data collected during…
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I’ve spent my Easter holidays in East Asia, most of them in the magnificent city of Tokyo – and, as every time I am in the area, I have paid a visit to Akihabara, the historical otaku district. Even though now the…
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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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I have already written about Enceladus in the past – a frozen world orbiting Saturn and one of the most likely to support life as we conceive it on Earth. Now it seems scientists were right in their assumption: NASA has…
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Enter The Apocalypse is a new anthology of short fiction from TANSTAAFL Press that features thirty-two authors all dealing with a version or another of the apocalypse. It’s the first in a planned trilogy of apocalyptic-themed anthologies from TANSTAAFL, and this…
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Again, that’s the moment of my summary of space news worth discussing this week (and in the past few, since I haven’t done it in a while). This time there are not amazing discoveries but some quite interesting subjects. As…
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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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