The nuptials promise of "till death us do part" got an intriguing twist in the Russian city of Omsk when a woman received an elaborate marriage proposal from her boyfriend, who she thought had just died. Irena Kolokov was caught off guard when she …
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Cassette Is Not Dead refurbs cassette tapes into handsome lamps. They operate on a barter economy — send them 40 homemade mix-tapes and they’ll send you a wallet made from one tape; send them 80 pre-recorded tapes and they’ll send you a box lamp. Alternatively, you can buy the lamps for cash. cassetteisnotdead.com (via Yanko[...]
A new study on plant reproduction finds that developing cells are very affected by altered states of gravity—a finding that has implications for our hopes for a future human society in space. In order for plants to have sex, a pollen grain first lands on a stigma (the female part of a flowering plant.) Following[...]
Howard Phillips (H.P.) Lovecraft is one of the most influential horror, fantasy, and science fiction writers of the 20th century. Stephen King cites Lovecraft as being responsible for his fascination with "weird fiction" and the greatest influence on …See all stories on this topic » Click Here to Read Google Alerts – H. P. Lovecraft[...]
Despite being an evolutionary dead end, one ant species rebels against the tyranny of another. Click Here to Read Living World by Tweet
Chad and Chris travel down to the American southwest to kick it with Juan Romero! Show Notes The Transition of Juan Romero comic strip! Next Week: The White Ship http://www.hppodcraft.com/podcasts/09_08_13_hppodcraft_ep006.mp3 Click Here to Read The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast by hppodcraft Tweet
Here’s literary critic Edmund Wilson’s form-letter for turning down requests from strangers. As Tim Ferriss notes, Wilson wasn’t a hermit or antisocial, but he maximized the time he spent socializing with the people he liked by not letting strangers gobble up his time: Edmund Wilson regrets that it is impossible for him without compensation to:[...]
Author: Mark All estselling witchcraft author Trish Sinclair has a shameful secret: sheâ s a lousy spellcaster, and the spells in her books belong to others. So when a dying warlock entrusts her with an ancient and powerful grimoire, she runs for her life from his murderer, psychotic witch Kate Cavanaugh. Kate pursues Trish relentlessly[...]
She'll be selling her produce at three markets this year: the Junction, Oakville Place and John St. Joshi's life changed when she was in a car accident. Click Here to Read Google Alerts – S. T. Joshi by Tweet
You’ve got to give researchers a hand — or at least a forelimb — for discovering that a gradual transition in femur size and position was apparently the main factor behind changes in dinosaur evolution that, over millions of years, led to the emergence of birds. In a study published today in Nature, a team[...]
The Guardian newspaper has an obituary on the death of Basil Copper, the British author of the Lovecraftian mythos novel The Great White Space (1974) and much else. This novel seems regarded as a pinnacle of mythos fiction and was republished a few weeks ago as an official budget-price Kindle ebook (warning: plot spoilers early[...]
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