Of aliens and interstellar asteroids

Dr. Avi Loeb is a Harvard astrophysicist whose academic career has been marked by bold ideas, groundbreaking research, and controversial claims, particularly in the realm of extraterrestrial life. Dr. Loeb argues that the intersteller asteroid Oumouamoua could be evidence of an alien spacecraft.

Of tentacles and sour grapes: Lovecraft’s side-eye at Mary Shelley

Lovecraft's praise of Frankenstein turns caveat with: "...despite its more or less mechanical plot and clumsy epistolary form." This is rich, coming from a man whose idea of narrative sophistication was to have a trembling narrator write down a ten-page panic attack before being eaten by an idea.

The Rosetta Stone ~ A portal into ancient Egypt

When Napoleon's expedition to Egypt unearthed a black basalt slab near the Nile Delta in 1799, no one present could have guessed its destiny as the most famous inscription in the history of linguistics.

I am Providence ~ The sentimental mysticism of H.P. Lovecraft

Lovecraft’s fiction, when examined closely, reveals a deeply sentimental engagement with the world around him. Despite his claims of mechanistic indifference, his stories are suffused with nostalgia, reverence for history, and an almost mystical attachment to place.

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