Asimov wrote the Lucky Starr series of juvenile science-fiction novels using the pen name Paul French.Asimov also wrote mysteries and fantasy, as well as much nonfiction. Most of his popular science books explain concepts in a historical way, going as far back as possible to a time when the...
…Dr. Bitzer, aprofessorof electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois, began developing PLATO in 1960 as a tool for educators to create interactive, individualized coursework. It swiftly evolved into “a culture, both physical and online,” Mr. Dear wrote, “with its own ...
Who is the protagonist in The Merchant of Venice? Who is the protagonist of The Merchant of Venice? Who is the antagonist in Romeo and Juliet? Who is the protagonist in All Summer in a Day? Who is the protagonist in Dracula by Bram Stoker?
Oct. 11: They wrote a book while locked in solitary confinement. Texas won’t let them read it Oct. 12: A Mysterious Hacking Group Has 2 New Tools to Steal Data From Air-Gapped Machines Oct. 13: A Woman Who Tried to Kill the President Tells Her Story Oct. 16: In a Decade-long ...
Originally published on Nitehawk Cinema’s blog,Hatched(January 2014) Below is a text I wrote for Nitehawk on women in horror film in conjunction with the film program, Final Girl… “No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.”― Shirley Jac...
Well, bread and milk proteins, gluten and casein, obviously! When Iwrote about that idiocyonce presented inFrontiers, I had no idea that it gained popularity with Wakefield. Now-dead publicist Max Clifford had taken on a project to rehabilitate research cheat Andrew Wakefield when he was ...
(Philippines), as well as lesser-known artisanal craft beers from countries like Japan, New Zealand and Italy. Originally set up seven years ago to raise awareness of the beer industry in Singapore, the four-day festival grows from strength to strength each year. The festival doesn’t have ...
), while screenplay is credited to Tassani and Marian Doebbeling. Yet it’s likely that these were only fronts and Kiefer himself wrote the script on his own, given the pic’s offbeat tone, including the use of hard-boiled first person narration. The name Lorenzo Sabatini pops up in the...
But then, a couple of weeks ago, I received an email from Harper Collins, one of the ‘Big Five’ publishers in London. They had bought Pavilion Publishing and bought myThen and Nowbooks. “Would you be interested,” they wrote, “in writing a completely new updated version ofLos Angeles...
(Young Charlie’s daydreaming and wish for excitement brings Uncle Charlie back from the East – or the dead, if one takes the Dracula model to its logical conclusion); travel, often across a country and frequently by train, emblemised here in the East-West journey that brings Uncle ...