Indecipherable manuscript isn’t a hoax, keep trying!
The Voynich manuscript is a total mystery since a century. It has lots of very detailed illustrations, but it’s written in a language that nobody can understand. Of course, it’s...
Dear Clark Kent: you’re not qualified for a job at the Daily Planet
Adding more and more realism to super-heroes stories has a downside. If you want to be truly realistic, your character might end up homeless and without a dime in their...
Man-eating tree, life on the Moon, cloned man and other litterary hoaxes
Orson Welles’ radio version of the War of the Worlds is quite famous, but there are other similar cases of imaginary stories that people actually believed. Who will write a...
Even when a meteor doesn’t hit the ground, its dust spreads all around the globe
Maybe one day a meteor will desintegrate in the atmosphere, but spread Fairy Dust all around. Or poison. Or worse? Here is a video showing how Chelyabinsk’s fireball spread all...
How far will tiny go? Car, TV screen, artificial heart: the smallest objects in their category
Miniaturization is always fascinating. How far can we go? These examples are quite fun, though. http://listverse.com/2013/08/18/10-smallest-things-of-their-kind-in-the-world/
As above, so below? Stars and human families are very much alike…
This isn’t a new age theory, but data collected by a real astronomer. He compared two different statistic charts: the distribution of multiple stars (solar systems with one, two, three…...
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: where are they?
I was playing with the new Google Maps when I got this silly idea : since it’s a great tool for writers who can’t afford to travel all over the...
The sewers of Rome and the greatness of the Empire
Years ago, I was visiting the Greco-Roman city of Ephesus, in modern Turkey. Our local guide was quite good at pointing out detains and interesting anecdotes. Ephesus was a great...
Sailing to Mars
When I was a kid, I read a series of books by an obscure French writer. I was totally amazed by the way he talked about terraforming Mars, and also...
The fate of the Queen of old…
It was the time when men erected a circle of stones that would defy the ages. A place we call Stonehenge. She was a Queen in Windsor, and she died,...
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