Unlocking the Mystery of Paris’ Most Secret Underground Society (combined)
Part I: Entrances On August 23, 2004, they discovered a cinema 60 feet beneath Paris. The sun was shining on the Trocadéro, the Eiffel Tower gleamed across the Seine, and deep belowground, police came across a sign. The officers were on a training mission, exploring the 4.3 miles of catacombs that twist beneath the 16…
Unlocking the Mystery of Paris’ Most Secret Underground Society
Part I: Entrances On August 23, 2004, they discovered a cinema 60 feet beneath Paris. The sun was shining on the Trocadéro, the Eiffel Tower gleamed across the Seine, and deep belowground, police came across a sign. The officers were on a training mission, exploring the 4.3 miles of catacombs that twist beneath the 16th…
From Alexander Pope to “Splice”: a Short History of the Female Mad Scientist
The mad scientist is an icon of modern popular culture, but critics have traced its origin back centuries. Yet there seem to be few female mad scientists. Which is odd, because the first significant fictional mad scientist was a woman. Brian Aldiss, in Billion Year Spree (1973), puts the mad scientist’s origin in Mary Shelley’s…
Stop Torrenting Things Like a Dirty, Dirty Pirate
Sure, you can’t single-handedly save the music industry, or the television industry, or the film industry, but if you take this short survey, email the last question to [email protected] with “$150 iTunes Contest” as the subject line, you could win one hundred and fifty smackers, good for anything sold in the iTunes store. At no…