James Frey's Blog, page 168

Hunter Returns Hemingway’s Horns

from Chicago Tribune Hunter S. Thompson’s wife returns antlers he stole from Ernest Hemingway’s house An interior view of the house formerly owned by Ernest Hemingway outside Ketchum, Id., in 2007. (Ted S. Warren / AP) A young Hunter S. Thompson went to Idaho to write about Ernest Hemingway and decided to take a piece of […]

More Evidence Cats Are Evil

from The Telegraph Cuddling kittens can kill you, warn scientists by Helena Horton Scientists found the scope and impact of a potentially deadly cat-borne disease was wider than they thought CREDIT: BETTINA STRENSKE / ALAMY STOCK PHOTO Cuddling a kitten may always make you feel better – but it could be dangerous to your health, according to experts. […]

THE HAUNTED Goes to SyFy

from Deadline Syfy Orders Pilots For AI Drama ‘The Machine’, ‘Haunted’ & ‘Happy!’ Adaptation by Nellie Andreeva The Machine is set in a world that is being transformed by the emergence of artificial intelligence. The project Syfy is stepping up its development efforts with three pilot orders to artificial intelligence drama The Machine, based on the 2013 cult hit film; […]

A Pack Of Wolves Runs Through It

Edward Albee Gone

from The LA Times Playwright Edward Albee, 3-time Pulitzer winner and ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ author, dead at 88 by Associated Press Three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee has died in suburban New York City at age 88. (Jennifer S. Altman/For The Times) Three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee has died in suburban New […]

Nina Hagen Diddles

OSIRIS-REx – Asteroid Hunter

from The Christian Science Monitor  NASA greenlights OSIRIS-REx for asteroid hunt On September 8, OSIRIS-REx is scheduled to be launched toward the asteroid Bennu to collect samples to send back to Earth. The asteroid may provide hints about the formation of planets and the origins of life on Earth. By Weston Williams NASA//Reuters On September […]

Watching Pitch Drip

from Atlas Obscura The Pitch Drop Experiment Begun 82 years ago, this science experiment keeps on going, ever so slowly.  University of Queensland Physics Museum Begun in 1927 by Professor Thomas Parnell, this experiment was meant to reveal the surprising properties of an everyday material: pitch. Pitch is the name of a number of hard […]

Michelangelo Pranks The Pope

from International Business Times Michelangelo secretly painted symbols of female anatomy on Sistine Chapel ceiling Michelangelo may have hidden symbols as dissection of human body was banned by Catholic Church. By Hannah Osborne Close-up of the ram skull with female anatomy diagramDeivis de Campos et at/Wiley/ Clinical Anatomy Michelangelo secretly painted symbols of the female anatomy […]

Dissected Graces

from Nautilus The Brief, Mystical Reign of the Wax Cadaver Early medical models of human anatomy shrouded death in feminine beauty. BY JOANNA EBENSTEIN Image courtesy of Museo Della Specola, Florence, Italy / Bridgeman Images Toward the end of the 18th century, in a wax workshop in Florence, a life-sized, anatomically correct, dissectible goddess of […]