So you’ve finished your book. Its been edited and published, and now you’re trying to figure out how to get to your potential readers. While beginning your marketing campaign usually happens well before your book is completed, getting your first reviews can’t begin until your book is done or in a final draft status. Many […]
LeVar Burton On Reading & Sci-Fi & Where Were Headed Next
Books: they’re almost definitely supposed to do something besides decorate wall space. After all, there’s a whole class about them every year in school. Also various scientific studies say our brains get concrete benefits from reading the written word. But what do we gain when that word is read to us? What do we gain […]
The Disturbing Real-Life Experiments That Inspired The Story Of Frankenstein
On January 17 1803, a young man named George Forster was hanged for murder at Newgate prison in London. After his execution, as often happened, his body was carried ceremoniously across the city to the Royal College of Surgeons, where it would be publicly dissected. What actually happened was rather more shocking than simple dissection […]
You’ve Been Making Coffee Wrong Your Entire Life
Why is it that coffee produced by a barista at a cafe always tastes different than the same beans brewed at home? It may be down to their years of training, but more likely it’s their ability to harness the principles of chemistry and physics. I am a materials chemist by day, and many of […]
Outraged online? We all are. Here’s what one Christian says about how to deal
(CNN)Ed Stetzer has been blocked by his own Twitter account. In addition to his columns at Christianity Today, Stetzer is dean of the School of Mission, Ministry, and Leadership at Wheaton College and executive director of the Billy Graham Center. A big man with a big personality, Stetzer looks a bit like a Metallica roadie […]
Australia is still dealing with the legacy of the UK’s nuclear bomb tests, 65 years on
(CNN)Yami Lester was 12 years old when the black mist came to Walatinna. “The harm done to the Aboriginal people is one of the most shameful aspects (of the tests),” Tynan said. “Nowhere in the British records is there a sign of even the slightest concern for the Aboriginal people.” This lack of concern is […]
Guy Notices Something Odd On Top Of Zeus Temple In 1858 Photo, Discovers What They Dont Teach At School
Being a history researcher means endless hours of poring over books, paintings, photos and manuscripts, looking for clues from the past to create an accurate picture of what things were really like. Naturally, when following a lead it can be easy to be led down all kind of interesting ‘rabbit holes,’ and that’s exactly what […]
I Drew 300 Monsters Over The Last 2 Years Based On Kid Drawings, And Herere The Results (New Pics)
For the past two years, I have been inviting kids all around the state of Michigan to send me monster designs. I provided four simple shape prompts for them to build their monsters off of. To date, over 17,000 drawings have been submitted. For my process, I look through all the entries and pick out […]
Anti-Trump bros defend children’s book by posting topless selfies
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A terrifying prediction from 1912 is so creepily accurate that people think it’s fake. It’s not.
A newspaper article in 1912 warned about climate change. The debate over coal continues to rage across America. As recently as the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump was talking up “clean coal” while Hillary Clinton was on the defensive about what to do about people working in the coal industry. But it turns out, experts […]
Aretha Franklin Offered To Post Angela Davis’ Bail In 1970
Aretha Franklin told In the Jet clip, which began circulating after Franklin died Thursday morning, the iconic singer, who was 28 at the time, said she would post bail for then-26-year-old Davis because she “wants freedom for Black people.” “I’ve been locked up (for disturbing the peace in Detroit) and I know you got to […]