What’s Hip at the Cat Café?
This week's Write the Book prompt is inspired by the Brooklyn Cat Cafe. "One of the earliest cat cafes in the U.S., the Brooklyn...
The Stories Behind the Art
In a post on Mental Floss, Jon Meyer shares the true-life inspirations behind some well-known works of art. He examines the stories behind:
1. Claude...
He Dowses for the Dead
The Marshall Project shares the story of a diviner who teaches crime scene investigators at the National Forensic Academy to dowse for corpses. Believers and...
What Kind of Mountain Lays Eggs?
For decades, geologists have observed a bizarre phenomenon at China's Mount Gandang. About every 30 years, a cliff on the side of the mountain...
10 Exercises to Help You Finish Your Story
In a post on the Script Lab blog, David Young offers ten suggestions for getting unstuck. Our favorites:
Write a scene using only dialogue
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Support Your Local Pervert
Like a pervert from a John Waters movie, Whipping Tom terrorized London women in the late 1600s by leaping out the shadows to spank...
The Strange Story of the Tombstone Pterodactyl
In a post on Mysterious Universe, Brent Swancer shares the tale of a pterodactyl sighting in Tombstone, Arizona, in the 1800s, one of many...
How Old is Old?
A new study has determined that the oldest known Homo sapiens fossils ever discovered in East Africa - the Omo I and Herto fossils...
Scientists Baffled by Radiation Source
An article on Cosmos discusses a newly-discovered source of pulsing radiation that astronomers have never seen before. "The object, GLEAM-XJ162759.5-523504, releases a giant burst...
The Bread-Baking Ghost of Big Sable Point Lighthouse
The Big Sable Point Light Station in Ludington, Michigan, is reportedly haunted by the ghost of a former lighthouse keeper. According to a volunteer...
