Credit: Professor Roy Caldwell at UC Berkeley. If you want to find an ocean animal that kills with speed, don’t look to sharks, swordfishes, or barracuda. Instead, try to find a mantis shrimp. These pugilistic relatives of crabs and lobsters attack other animals by rapidly unfurling a pair of arms[...]
I try not to let myself become overly attached to material things, but this Jimbo book by Gary Panter is something I’ve treasured for 30 years. I bought it in 1982 from a headshop in Boulder, Colorado, called the Pipefitter. I hadn’t heard of Gary Panter before seeing the book. I was attracted to its[...]
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World map of all cats known to be resident in libraries, and the Library Journal article that led me to it. Click Here to Read TENTACLII :: H.P. Lovecraft blog by David Haden Tweet
Bizarre requests for Britain's foreign office. The writer has posted comments on this article Kounteya SinhaKounteya Sinha, TNN | May 18, 2013, 05.37 AM IST. Tweet. Share on Linkedin. Comments. More …See all stories on this topic » Click Here to Read Google Alerts – bizarre by Tweet
Featuring Guest Host Andrew Leman & the Vocal Stylings of Sean Branney Selected music by The Spider Translator In the spirit of our story, Mr. Fifer chose to host via portable phone from deep below the earth. Let’s all watch Out of Mind And don’t forget to check out… The Whisperer in Darkness! Next up:[...]
To an arachnophobe they may seem universally creepy, but spiders can actually be nice. One strange species of spider, Anelosimus studiosus, consists of individuals of two distinct personalities: docile and aggressive. And new research finds that, in this species at least, nice guys finish last. A. studiosus is found in both North and South America, where[...]
This week we explore what it’s like to deal with the elderly in The Terrible Old Man. Extra thanks to our reader – Mr. Douglas Sarine of Ask a Ninja! Note: I forgot to mention a cool animation that adapts this story! Check it out! -Chris. Next week: The Tree & The Cats of Ulthar! http://www.hppodcraft.com/podcasts/09_09_10_hppodcraft_ep010.mp3[...]
Watching a butterfly emerge from its chrysalis is enough to evoke wonder even from the most world-weary of souls. But rarely do we get to see behind the scenes of the pupa’s transformation. Current methods rely on dissection of the chrysalis, or at best, staining the critter (thereby killing it) and using X-rays to look[...]
The fish detect magnetic fields and use them to orient themselves along a North-South axis. Click Here to Read Living World by Tweet
H.P. Lovecraft is all of those things, but a master of his craft is not necessarily an easy man to live with, and genius often goes unrecognized in it's time, or at least unrewarded financially. How does one love the man like Lovecraft? A man who …See all stories on this topic » Click Here[...]
Activity in a particular part of our brains while listening to new music reveals whether we enjoy the tune, and even how much we’d be willing to pay to hear it again. Neural activity in the nucleus accumbens (NAcc), part of the brain’s ventral striatum, can predict how much a listener likes a particular piece[...]
Lately, a lot of folks have asked me to post on the blog. I do this as a service, and it does not mean I personally support the process. The blog is about Lovecraft and his legacy, and part of the second decade of the 21st century is about social networking and how Lovecraft’s legacy[...]
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