10. Cicero In 63 BC, Lucius Sergius Catilina, better known as Catiline, attempted to remove Cicero and Gaius Antonius Hybrida, the two ruling consuls of the Roman Republic, by leading a group of enraged politicians, soldiers, and farmers. It was a failure on their part. It was Antonius who ultimately prevailed over Catiline at the […]
10 A Restless Black Hole Travels Through Space and Time Supermassive black holes were thought to be motionless for a long time by astronomers. It is believed that stars and planets orbit the cosmic colossuses, which sit resolutely at the center of nearly all massive galaxies. However, new evidence implies the model may not be […]
10. Carnivores are in the oyster mushroom family. A mushroom is the safest option. All except the most dangerous ones, of course. However, there is typically a catch to the lethal ones. Fungi usually can’t kill you unless you eat them. That is why, unless you are an expert, mushroom foraging is not something you […]
10 Spacer The last piece in the Dangerous Visions collection of disturbing prophecies is Aye, and Gommorah by Samuel R. Delaney, which has been hailed as the best fiction written by a homosexual male in the 1960s. It follows a spacer who, to protect their gametes from space radiation, has undergone an advanced type of […]
10 Founder of the Science Fiction Genre A Foreboding Prediction of What Lies Ahead in Edgar Allan Poe’s Work Even though he helped establish the science fiction subgenre, Edgar Allan Poe is more famous for his works in the horror and macabre genres. He took advantage of the era’s preoccupation with new technology to write […]
Kids don’t get a say in who they spend their childhood with; they’re born into a family and have no choice but to identify with their parents.We have a tendency to view a monster child as an extension of the parents when the child is born into their care. Upon the deposal of their fathers, […]
A man died in his bedroom closet, a youngster told his mother. She dismissed it as the product of her son’s active imagination. She eventually discovered, though, that he was right and that her kid had been conversing with the man in the closet. A kindergarten student informed his teachers that an unfamiliar stranger was […]