Seeds of Lovecraft’s “At the Mountains of Madness,” in His Terrifying, Tightly-Packed Notes
By Rebecca Onion from slate.com: HP Lovecraft, notes on “At the Mountains of Madness,” 1931. The John Hay Library, Brown University. This is one of seven pages of plot notes that horror author H.P. Lovecraft produced while planning his 1936 novella “At the Mountains of Madness.” The writer, who had fallen on hard times, used […]
Incredible paintings of sci-fi suburbia will make you wish you were Swedish
By Dante D’Orazio from theverge.com: Welcome to rural Sweden, sometime in the late ’80s. Citizens go about their mundane lives and children explore the countryside. But something isn’t quite right. Robots and hovercrafts are commonplace, and decaying science facilities sprout from the harsh Scandinavian landscape. There’s even a rumor circulating that dinosaurs have returned from […]
This 1,600-Year-Old Goblet Shows that the Romans Were Nanotechnology Pioneers
Researchers have finally found out why the jade-green cup appears red when lit from behind By Zeeya Merali from smithsonianmag.com: The colorful secret of a 1,600-year-old Roman chalice at the British Museum is the key to a supersensitive new technology that might help diagnose human disease or pinpoint biohazards at security checkpoints. The glass chalice, […]