Pinterest-Group - Abandoned Ghost Towns & Structures

There is a Pinterest group dedicated to abandoned ghost towns and structures with some remarkable pictures.  See more here!

10 Awesome Secret Passage Bookshelves

Over on bookriot.com, a recent article highlights "10 Awesome Secret Passage Bookshelves." See more here!

Time Cloaking at MIT

There is an interesting article on the MIT Technology Review website regarding a recent advancement.  It says in part -

The trick to building a temporal cloak is to place two time-lenses in series and then send a beam of light through them. The first compresses the light in time while the second decompresses it again. But this leaves a gap. For short period, there is a kind of hole in time in which any event is unrecorded. So to an observer, the light coming out of the second time-lens appears undistorted, as if no event has occurred.

Read more here!

Medieval Thoughts on Cats

Over on that excellent tabletop setting resource, the Medievalists.net website, there is a fresh article which ruminates on the place of cats in Medieval society and what folks back then thought about them.  Read more here!

Giant Isopods

Some Facebook Friends reminded me recently about the existence of giant isopods and one even Shared the following video in which they are featured in a feeding frenzy along with eels, crabs, and other scavengers.  Enjoy!

Deadly Lake

There is an article over on NewScientist.com titled "Deadly lake turns animals into statues." See more here!

1000 Years of European History in 10 Minutes Map

There is a cool video showing approximately one thousand years of mapped history of Europe starting in 1,006.  See more here!