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Writer Fuel: Is This What Viking Money Looked Like?

The Viking hoard consists of 32 iron ingots, which are all pierced with a hole on one end and may have been grouped together in a bundle. (Image credit: Mildri Een Eide)

A rare stash of 1,000-year-old ironwork, which sat for 40 years in a family’s basement in Norway, is now seeing the light of day after a woman discovered the hoard during some spring cleaning. The hoard consists of 32 iron ingots that look like small spatulas and date back to the Viking Age (A.D. 793 … Read more

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Writer Fuel: Perseverance Loses Its Pet Rock

Perseverance and its pet rock - NASA

After more than a year together on the Red Planet, NASA’s Perseverance rover and its hitchhiking “pet rock” have finally parted ways. The stone had been lodged in one of the rover’s wheels for more than half of its mission on Mars. Perseverance accidentally picked up the pet rock in its front left wheel on … Read more

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New Paranormal Film “Heir of the Witch” Streaming Everywhere August 4th

Heir of the Witch Film

An underprivileged seamstress, haunted by her past, seeks love and acceptance in high society but is faced with the curse from her evil roots. Anna H. flees to America with her aunt at a young age, hoping for a bright future away from her turbulent past. Induced by her grandmother, Anna develops a passion in … Read more

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Writer Fuel: Our Tectonic Plates Are Leaking

Pythia's Oasis

Holes spewing warm fluids from the boundary between tectonic plates have been discovered at the bottom of the ocean off the coast of Oregon. Researchers think this strange, never-before-seen phenomenon, dubbed Pythia’s Oasis after an ancient Greek priestess, could provide insight into earthquake risk along the dangerous fault — although exactly how it affects the … Read more

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Review: Magic Burning – Kaje Harper

Magic Burning - Kaje Harper - Liminal Fiction

Genre: Fantasy, Romance Reviewer: Ulysses, Paranormal Romance Guild Get It On Amazon About The Book Alan I haven’t been out with a guy in the last two years. Partly because I’m a gay elementary-school teacher in a fairly small, conservative town. Partly because I’m a sorcerer, and dating ordinary humans only leads to trouble. Sleeping … Read more

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Writer Fuel: Why Are Deserts Dry?

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Deserts can take many forms — including sweeping sand dunes, rocky canyons, sagebrush steppes and polar ice fields. But they’re united by one thing: a lack of rainfall. Generally speaking, anywhere that gets less than 10 inches (25 centimeters) of rain a year counts as a desert, said Lynn Fenstermaker, an ecologist at the Desert … Read more

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Review: Galactic Overtures #1 – Layman Kingsford

Galactic Overtures #1 - Layman Kingsford

Genre: Sci-Fi Reviewer: Lucy Story PDF (Free) | Stories Page | Living Starship Game Page About The Book Set in the POST GENDER science fiction universe of Living Starship, follow D’Trex Taree, an officer cadet in the Situdel Fleet Academy as they are given command of a small team of enlisted cadets. Their assignment on their first day of … Read more

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Writer Fuel: Fusion Power is Critical to Our Survival, The Science Guy Says

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What would Bill Nye the Science Guy get our home planet for Earth Day? The ultimate gift: fusion energy. “We need electricity,” Nye told Live Science in an exclusive interview on Thursday (April 20). “We need not only what we can get right now with existing technologies — with wind, and solar and geothermal energy … Read more

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Review: Jade: First and Last – M.D. Grimm

Jade: First and Last - M.D. Grimm - Stones of Power

Genre: Fantasy Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon | Universal Buy Link | Series Link About The Book Morgorth and Aishe must contend with a deadly threat that could spell disaster for their world. Payshthas were the first of the Mother’s intelligent children. It is rare for true friendship to form between them and another … Read more

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Writer Fuel: Will We Ever Lose the Moon?

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The moon’s orbit around Earth appears so regular that civilizations have based the month on lunar motion for thousands of years. However, the moon is actually creeping slowly away from Earth. So will Earth lose its moon at some point? Scientists determined the rate at which the moon is drifting away from Earth with help … Read more