Are you obsessed with the geographies of the underworld? Well, you’re not alone. An Apulian vase painter from Ancient Greece, active around the second half of the 4th century BC, shared your obsession so much that scholars call him “the Underworld Painter“. Today we take a look at his work on my Patreon.
SciFi Friday — The Diamond Lens by Fitz-James O’Brien (1858) — Part 5
The three months succeeding Simon’s catastrophe I devoted night and day to my diamond lens. I had constructed a vast galvanic battery, composed of nearly two thousand pairs of plates: a higher power I dared not use, lest the diamond should be calcined. By means






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