Space Capsule calling Planet Earth! Retired Astronaut Vincent Grant reporting for duty! Nope, wasn’t sucked into a space vortex and no Klingons round Uranus. My damn daughter gone and put me in a home, the thanks you get for fifty odd years of washing nappies. When she was small I used to take the kids [...]
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Junior Science League: Kai Krause
June 11th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Guest Writers
Students of the known world! It is is we, again! Did you miss us? Surely we did miss you and your enquiries! The Faculty of Recall is alive and prospering, although in changed circumstances. Surely you would know we have a new way of government, with the ascent of His Royal Highness The Blessed Santa [...]
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Sex Fetish of the Ancients
September 9th, 2009 · Comments Off · Guest Writers
Students! It is we! Long silenced due to lack of funds, The Faculty of Recall has just received a grant to plot the exciting history of rafts. “Lives are built on rafts” as the saying goes – but a little of that stipend we shall devote to our patient Junior Science friends. Thank you for [...]
Junior Science League: Profound Discovery Discovered!
March 8th, 2009 · Comments Off · Guest Writers
Seedlings of science, behold! The UNP Faculty of Recall has great tidings! We have already provided a number of updates of great interest to the modern student. Here and here and here and here and here also. Their didactic power is now overwhelmed by fortunate events. While we do not hold the theoretical abilities of [...]
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How to write Chick-Lit
February 15th, 2009 · Comments Off · Guest Writers
Hey cats! How’s it swinging? This is Astronaut Vincent T Grant orbiting back into your space face for another How To. Truth is, I never expected to be back with you so fast but the main guy here is not in a thriving way. So we were doing tequila shots around the back of his [...]
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How to write Science Fiction
January 26th, 2009 · Comments Off · Guest Writers
Hello I’m Vincent T Grant, former astronaut. Never heard of me? I never heard of you either. I spent 800 hours in space and all the grand kids talk about is Snoop Dog this and Jiggy that. No one cares what the hell you already did, so you have to keep on finding new ways [...]
Good King Mac
January 11th, 2009 · Comments Off · Guest Writers
Fie! Put away your cudgels and sticks rapscallion youth! Scientists do not box ears, bucket doors and antic bunks! This will not do, it is the mirror of antipodean foolhard. You will cease to bicker and attend to your betters. Professors may dispute, this does not call upon their charges to carry the dispute to [...]
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On the Days of the Week
December 29th, 2008 · Comments Off · Guest Writers
A welcome missive has been received from Arthur Pound, current Leader of the Junior Scientists League. He writes – ‘Sirs, we all have been taken aback by the wealth of knowledge you have imparted in regard to our earliest ancestors. Could you settle a vexing question that has spread among our membership in regard to [...]
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‘Not Savages!’
December 15th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Guest Writers
Angry communication from Professor Ankle Assets, chair of Ancient History at UNP, who has taken exception to the word ‘savages’ in our last article. While we hold our opinion of pre Oops civilisation as decadent, we provide highlights of Dr. Assets’ notes so as to provide a balanced discussion for our younger readers. All future [...]
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Music Containers preceding the ‘Oops’ event
December 10th, 2008 · Comments Off · Guest Writers
We are most gratified by the interest in our previous summary of ‘the Gap’ event. The Junior Scientists League has petitioned for more information about ‘the Oops’ event, and particularly about the prehistoric musical containers at the time. We’re happy to pass on what little we do know. First, the Oops. This is the popular [...]
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