Asteroid Vesta Flyby Video

If you have ever had to give a description of space flight to players in a tabletop roleplaying campaign, you know how tough it can be to capture the environment effectively.  Here's a new video from the JPLNews YouTube channel showing "NASA Dawn's Virtual Flight Over Asteroid Vesta" that can help inspire your technique.  Enjoy!

Gorey Inspiration

There's a recent article on io9.com showing some of the work of John Kenn Mortensen's Post-It Monstres that suggests it is inspired by Edward Gorey, and that seems true enough, but also suggests that this work has Cthulhu-esque aspects, which also feels right.  Check them out and see if they also inspire your tabletop roleplaying setting just a bit.  Read more here!

Our Lives with Pterosaurs by Dr. Mark Witton

There's a two-part series of very detailed articles over on pterosaur-net.blogspot.com called "Our lives with pterosaurs" by Dr. Mark Witton that is both fun and informative.  Read more here and here!

Early Middle East Drilling

What might appear to some as a bullet hole in a skull from nearly 3,500 years ago in the Sudan, is more likely an example of trepanation, the surgical procedure of drilling a hole, and the subject of the Sceintifc American image of the week.  Such ancient procedures are worth keeping in your head as a tabletop roleplaying setting creator as well.  Read a bit more here!

World's Deadliest Fish

A cool article on squidoo.com details some of the deadliest fish in the world.  Write some of these up for your own setting.  Read more here!

Pufferfish Beaks

There's a cool new article on the National History Museum (UK) website regarding pufferfish and how they seem to have come by their beaks, an unusual dental development for a fish, to say the least.  It just goes to show tabletop roleplaying game setting creators, there's really no detail too small and nothing is ever off limits.  Read more here!

Most.Rays.Evar

The most rays ever recorded in a single school were caught on film by National Geographic and they've shared it on their YouTube channel.  Enjoy!