Guest blog

[Stephen Palmer]

Automata, mice & lice... a guest blog from Teresa.

 

[Ray McCarthy]

Indeed Real Life (tm) often has stuff you'd be hard put to make up. The Chinese just recently searched about 10,000 pigeons. A Science Fiction Author founded a church to make money. The Galaxy has Neutron stars, apparently natural, but such a good Galactic 'GPS' we are starting to use them for navigation in the Solar system.
In a slightly similar vein to Teresa's article has been a BBC series (may not work in UK! try .co.uk instead of .com)
Unless you know what to look for these are hard to find... Stuff that if you made up, people would say "Unrealistic!"
I think all culled from 19th C. contemporary UK & USA newspapers.

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26975791
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26872177
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-25340525
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-26784493
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-29079683
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-27036219
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-27161833
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-27344976
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-27246823
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-27440191
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-28546844
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-28982145
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-25340525

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

Thanks, Stephen, for the opportunity to guest blog.

(And I'm looking forward to what you send me in return!)