Other historical incidents of bizarre things raining from the sky
Sundry odd objects have rained from the sky since Year Dot. For a further look into these strange rains, here’s the curiously titled 1917 essay of “Showers of Organic Matter.” With the sudden interest in dead birds falling from the sky, following the apocalyptic death of thousands of red-winged blackbirds in Beebe, Arkansas, on New…
Check out an excerpt from a never-published Dune RPG
Over a decade ago, Wizards of the Coast asked Matthew Colville of Squaremans to write an role-playing game based on Frank Herbert’s Dune. The game never saw print, but here are some samples from the RPG. In 1997 I started working at Last Unicorn Games, a tiny little game company long-since defunct, on the Dune…
Russians will be first to explore untouched Antarctic Lake Vostok, in hunt for weird life forms
An oxygen-rich lake, unreachable for the past 14 million years and buried beneath a thick sheet of ice, is about to be penetrated by a drill bit from a faraway place. It’s possible that special life forms have adapted to live in this extreme environment, and scientists hope to learn more once they can analyze…