Browsing the blog archives for August, 2008

Physics of the impossible

Have you ever been wondering about how the universe got its spots? (Also a nice book by the way) Or do you wonder whether time-travel is possible? Or when teleportation is going to bring you from behind your computer to the other side of the planet within a second? If you think all these science-fiction-like [...]

Italo disco music

Quite a lot of people have heard about (synthpop) artists from the 80′s like Aha, Depeche Mode, Kraftwerk, New Order, Ultravox etc. At least the artists I name here are really what most people agree typical 80′s music, with quite an electronic influence in them. Anyway, to get my real point, today I found out [...]

Masters of Doom

Have you played or heard of games like Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D and Doom and Quake? I did. These games belong to the all time classics, written by Id Software. What is even more interesting about these games is that there is a whole story behind each of them. And that story has been put [...]

Qin Shi Huang’s Terracotta Army

Already somewhere before the summer started I saw a promotion for the exposition of the terracotta army in Assen. I read more about the army on the internet on Wikipedia and really wanted to see this exposition myself in real life. Because we also wanted to have a short holiday, we decided to go for [...]