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Ancient New Zealand has been home to an incredible array of absurdly large birds. This has included a waist-high parrot, nicknamed Squawk-zilla (Heracles inexpectatus) – the largest parrot ever known on Earth, possibly hunting for flesh around 20 million years ago. Two-meter-high flightless Moa also made their home there, along with their predator, Haast's Eagles (Hieraaetus moorei), with a monstrous 3-meter wingspan, around 2 million years ago. Now researchers have added a new giant penguin to this gloriously super-sized menagerie – one discovered by a lucky group of school kids back in 2006. "It's sort of surreal to know that...

H.P. Lovecraft wrote of the night-gaunts in his poem "Night-Gaunts" and in the story "The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath." He certainly had a vision of what they were and how they behaved because, as a child, he was tormented by them in his nightmares- which I'll talk about a bit later. They were later expanded upon in the writings of Brian Lumley, who hinted that they may have mouths with which to suckle Yibb-Tstll's black breasts. The alternate title to this post could have been "Why I Hate Wings On the Backs of Humanoid Anatomy." For almost a quarter...

I am not a Lovecraft devotee, since horror is not really my niche. I've been tangentially aware of the surge in Lovecraft-bashing, ever since World Fantasy Convention caved in on their trophy squabble. Now that the man's literary works are falling into the public domain, it seems there are a heap of people who want to re-do, un-do, re-work, or otherwise "colonize" the man's fiction legacy. Ah, cultural Marxism: same as it ever was. Here's the rub, though. Seeing people who are literally babies in the field, already planting their flags as "historic" persons, come to overturn the smelly...

Explanation: New high resolution images of Pluto are starting to arrive from the outer Solar System. The robotic New Horizons spacecraft, which zoomed by Pluto in July, has finished sending back some needed engineering data and is now transmitting selections from its tremendous storehouse of images of Pluto and its moons. The featured image, a digital composite, details a surprising terrain filled with craters, plains, landscape of unknown character, and landforms that resemble something on Earth but are quite unexpected on Pluto. The light area sprawling across the upper right has been dubbed Sputnik Planum and is being studied for...

A considerable documentary about the great horror writer available for free on YT. An impressive guest list too, Guillermo Del Toro, John Carpenter, Neil Gaiman and others.

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We are the valiant Knights of Peace Who prattle for the Right: Our banner is of snowy fleece, Inscrib'd: "TOO PROUD TO FIGHT!" By sweet Chautauqua's flow'ry banks We love to sing and play, But should we spy a foeman's ranks! We'd proudly run away! When Prussian fury sweeps the main Our freedom to deny; Of tyrant laws we ne'er complain; But gladsomely comply! We do not fear the submarines That plough the troubled foam; We scorn the ugly old machines- And safely stay at home! They say our country's close to war And soon must man the guns; But...

Message to Slacker: God is supernatural, and the material universe is the result of a supernatural act. You can doubt your dualistic nature, and go for biological, cultural, or historical determinism, but you'll always be simplifying reality. God will never force you to pray, but don't pretend you only rely on yourself. The pleasures of food, sex and intoxicants fade away. No amount of money and power can produce a pain free life or purchase immortality. Vanity of vanities! We're only left with restlessness and discontent when we deny God as our Final Cause. HP Lovecraft was a good example...