Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
Pink Floyd aside, the fascination of what’s called ‘the dark side of the Moon’ is widespread, even though calling it “dark side” is actually a misnomer. As a matter of fact, that side is no darker than any other part of the lunar…
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Frozen Wavelets Issue #3 is now live here. This Spring 2020 edition features flash fiction and poetry by Colleen Anderson, Daniel Ausema, Davian Aw, Shenoa Carroll-Bradd, Marc Criley, Deborah L. Davitt, Jessica Jo Horowitz, Michael McCormick, L.P. Melling, Lorraine Schein, Margarita…
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Frozen Wavelets Issue #3 will go live next week, featuring sixteen excellent pieces to keep us company during pandemic times. Among them, a dark SF flash by Wendy N. Wagner, scheming cats (Mary Soon Lee), and visionary poetry (Davian Aw,…
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This month looks about tragic in terms of available time, but since I have challenged myself to read at least three new books every month (not related to work or research, of course), here we go. Contagious by Scott Sigler….
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All eyes are pointed to the sky, looking at the weather, which remains the main obstacle so far to the historical Space X’s launch (why it is so crucial, anyway? read this). The launch had to be cancelled (‘scrubbed’) on…
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When Frozen Wavelets #2 went live, Covid-19 was already raging in Asia, but in Europe and the States we were just at the beginning. Three months later, it’s safe to say we live in a different world. There’s virtually nothing…
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There has been some interesting news in these last weeks about space, both in terms of missions (I have talked about Lucy in my last post) and discoveries. Here some of the things I’ve found worth reading. We are two…
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This week’s post is devoted to this interesting new mission, after we’ve just enjoyed the last supermoon of 2020. Lucy will be the first space mission to study the Trojans, asteroids that occupy about the same orbit around the Sun…
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It looks not so long since I’ve done April’s post, but, thanks to the lockdown, I’ve been reading a lot, so I’m ready for another round. Infected by Scott Sigler. This author is a recent discovery (I’ve featured him last…
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Kentaro Miura’s Berserk is infamous not only for its content (the analogy with GoT is only up to a point: the manga is definitively worse when violence and bleakness of the worldbuilding are about) but also for the long periods…
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